The Edge of Reality: A Progress Report on Unidentified Flying Objects

CLAIM-840001 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“reports of Unidentified Flying Objects exist”

CLAIM-840002 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“such reports continue to be made daily, in all parts of the world, by all sorts of people, from all walks of life and of all degrees of education, training, and culture”

CLAIM-840003 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“for every UFO report made, at least a dozen UFO sightings go unreported”

CLAIM-840004 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“the total number of “UFO events” or UFO experiences, over the entire world must be staggeringly high”

CLAIM-840005 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“The object was no more than six feet from the ground when we first saw it.”

CLAIM-840006 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“The top had a dome and the under part had a slight dip in it.”

CLAIM-840007 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“The object gave off a hum and yet not a hum.”

CLAIM-840008 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“The noise that this thing gave off was a hum and yet not a hum.”

CLAIM-840009 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“There is no hope of advance in science without a paradox.”

CLAIM-840010 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“The UFO phenomenon calls upon us to extend our imaginations as we never have before, to think things we have never dared think before—in short, to approach boldly the edge of our accepted reality and, by mentally battering at these forbidding boundaries, perhaps open up entirely new vistas.”

CLAIM-840011 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“The UFO phenomenon is worldwide, and experienced investigators agree on the following basic reported characteristics:”

CLAIM-840012 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“I saw that round orange object to the left of the cab. I know I saw it. It was there. I saw it and he saw it.”

CLAIM-840013 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“Chuck told me to look out the left-hand side of the truck, and I saw that three other objects that were... I couldn't estimate how high they were up, but they were up quite a ways and I observed them for a few minutes.”

CLAIM-840014 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“Just about that time the truck, I think, if I can recall correctly... I don't know for sure... but I think we came around a curve, and as we hit this curve it felt to me like a blast of wind hit the back of the truck and it felt like it just picked it up and we were like floating.”

CLAIM-840015 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“It looked like a perfect sphere with a band of white lights running around the middle.”

CLAIM-840016 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“At the bottom of the sphere was what looked like a triangle of black light glowing a sort of bluish color.”

CLAIM-840017 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“The lights did not flicker or dim or brighten, they stayed constant.”

CLAIM-840018 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“No sound was heard.”

CLAIM-840019 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“Animals were affected, people had reactions such as burns and nausea after a sighting.”

CLAIM-840020 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“The phenomenon of weightlessness and levitation seems to be reported time and again.”

CLAIM-840021 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“It is happening to people in all countries and climates.”

CLAIM-840022 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“It apparently happens in cycles.”

CLAIM-840023 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“It affects physical life.”

CLAIM-840024 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“They do not behave like aerodynamic things.”

CLAIM-840025 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“They go through motions that seem to violate the laws of aerodynamics as we know them.”

CLAIM-840026 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“They do not seem to be affected by the witnesses or by the sociology or psychology of the observers.”

CLAIM-840027 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“In the close approaches to the ground, too, there are certain characteristic behaviors.”

CLAIM-840028 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“The close approaches are not simply correlated with population density, as we might expect.”

CLAIM-840029 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“There are consistent differences between large objects from which smaller objects come out, and the objects that are seen in single flight through the atmosphere.”

CLAIM-840030 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“The graphs in Figure 5 were done by summarizing a number of statistical studies I conducted over ten years ago with a computerized catalog.”

CLAIM-840031 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“Roughly one-quarter of the cases could be explained by manmade objects in the atmosphere (mainly planes and balloons).”

CLAIM-840032 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“Another quarter was composed of space objects near the Earth: meteors and satellites.”

CLAIM-840033 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“A third quarter contained astronomical causes: Venus, stars, or other objects.”

CLAIM-840034 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“Fully one-quarter was unidentified, being classified as “unknown” or “insufficient information.””

CLAIM-840035 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“Roughly a third of the close encounters involve “occupants.””

CLAIM-840036 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“In half of the cases the witnesses were able to examine the object from less than half a mile, and in many cases they were considerably closer.”

CLAIM-840037 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“Close encounters are reported by witnesses of all ages although young adults seem reluctant to share their experiences for fear of ridicule.”

CLAIM-840038 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“We know that there is an unknown phenomenon being manifested. It appears to center on a technological device, a machine that is capable of transporting occupants.”

CLAIM-840039 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“The behavior of both the machine and the occupants appears to be consistent with the idea that we are faced with an alien form of life.”

CLAIM-840040 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“However, their behavior is not consistent either with what you would expect from space visitors, or with what we know about physics.”

CLAIM-840041 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“The UFOs seem to be a “crime without a motive.” They don’t have any purpose in coming here. They don’t take anything. Apparently, they don’t pose a threat. They do not bring help. They do not seem to affect our society on a collective level.”

CLAIM-840042 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“We would be willing to accept something like an anti-gravity machine, if we had strange creatures coming out of it with a message for the President.”

CLAIM-840043 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“The public is interested in them in a major way, and the public is the source of the report of the phenomenon itself.”

CLAIM-840044 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“The public is waiting for you or Allen to say, “At last we now have the solutions, and everybody can breathe easily!””

CLAIM-840045 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“They are playing games with us.”

CLAIM-840046 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“Those things are out in the road.”

CLAIM-840047 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“They were coming after us.”

CLAIM-840048 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“One light on the left and three on the right.”

CLAIM-840049 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“Horizontal.”

CLAIM-840050 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“They were all the same color.”

CLAIM-840051 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“The front one accelerated and took off.”

CLAIM-840052 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“It went dark.”

CLAIM-840053 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“The problem with that truck—all these things started happening when that orange light seemed to disappear.”

CLAIM-840054 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“Boianai is a village on a small tongue of land made by the Mase River where it flows out of a deep gorge of the Owen Stanley. It is on the south side of Goodenough Bay, some twenty miles across from Menapi. About four miles behind it the mountains rise sheer to culminate in two peaks which overhang the gorge on”

CLAIM-840055 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“The public expects a constant supply of exciting stories from the press and the media. Sightings of UFOs are caught in this cycle of social excitement; new cases appear, occasionally become front-page material overnight, and are dropped forever a few days later.”

CLAIM-840056 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“The sightings at Boianai, New Guinea, made in 1959, retain all their mystery after many investigations and many attempts at explanation.”

CLAIM-840057 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“The case is exceptional in the quality of the witnesses, the number and clarity of the descriptions, and the “communication” it implies between human witnesses and the occupants of a UFO.”

CLAIM-840058 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“They are about 4,000 feet high. Behind them rise ridge upon ridge, up to Mount Simpson, nearly 10,000 feet, which caps the range.”

CLAIM-840062 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“He saw a sparkling object which to me was peculiar because it sparkled, and because it was very, very bright, and it was above Venus and so that caused me to watch it for a while, then I saw it descend towards us.”

CLAIM-840063 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“Stephen Gill Moi [a native teacher in the mission], who joined Father Gill a few minutes later, described it as “shining with a bright white light, like a Tilley lamp.””

CLAIM-840064 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“Father Gill states that it changed from a brilliant white light, when it was far off, to a dull yellow, or perhaps pale orange, when it was close.”

CLAIM-840065 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“When asked whether he thought it was metallic, he answered: “Well, it appeared solid, certainly not transparent or porous; we just assume that it was metallic from our experience of things that travel and carry men.””

CLAIM-840066 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“Father Gill is emphatic that there were four legs, tapering, two at each end, somewhat divergent.”

CLAIM-840067 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“Father Gill continues: “I called Ananias and several others, and we stood in the open to watch. Although the sun had set behind the mountain, it was quite light for the following fifteen minutes. We watched figures appear on top—four of them—there is no doubt that they were human.””

CLAIM-840068 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“Father Gill’s report continues: “I stretched my arm above my head and waved. To our surprise the figure did the same. Ananias waved both arms over his head, then the two outside figures did the same. Ananias and self began waving our arms and all four seemed to wave back. There seemed to be no doubt that our movements were answered.””

CLAIM-840069 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“Father Gill’s report continues: “As dark was beginning to close in, I sent Kodawa for a torch and directed a series of long dashes towards the UFO. After a minute or two of this, the UFO apparently acknowledged by making several wavering motions back and forth (in a side-direction, like a pendulum).””

CLAIM-840070 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“To some limited extent the subject has been brought into the laboratory.”

CLAIM-840071 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“If UFOs were a perfectly natural phenomenon, such as, let us say, the northern lights, or even ball lightning (which is pretty mysterious, but no physicist would regard it as anything but natural), it certainly could be studied scientifically.”

CLAIM-840072 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“If, however, you are dealing with a phenomenon that is intelligently controlled, as the objects in New Guinea seemed to be, then the ordinary methods, the kitchen-tested methods of science don’t quite apply, because you have a game-theory aspect coming into it.”

CLAIM-840073 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“Is there any evidence that would lead us to think that it’s a feint, that they do one thing but mean something else?”

CLAIM-840074 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“The naive UFO investigators say that’s evidence that we are being visited. According to them, these space beings come here in their craft and they have to repair their equipment!”

CLAIM-840075 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“HYNEK: Perhaps they are trying to tell us something symbolically; on the other hand, if they are so smart, why don’t they tell it to us directly? Why didn’t they land in Boianai? Maybe it isn’t transmittable in terms of language.”

CLAIM-840076 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“VALLEE: The inoculation technique?”

CLAIM-840077 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“HASTINGS: If people believe they are overhearing something inadvertently, they are more likely to believe that information and accept it than if a person is telling them the same thing directly.”

CLAIM-840078 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“The appearance of UFOs has been verified in all countries, and that different cultures react differently.”

CLAIM-840079 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“The French started scientific investigations very early; in 1961 I was involved in the creation of a private group for the investigation of UFOs.”

CLAIM-840080 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“In France there are now several groups that are doing much more than mere investigations.”

CLAIM-840081 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“The Gendarmerie has officially been given the task of thoroughly investigating UFO cases, in particular the landings.”

CLAIM-840082 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“As far as we know, there are studies of UFOs going on in the Soviet Union.”

CLAIM-840083 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“In Spain there are several private groups that have done research and there is a series of publications from them.”

CLAIM-840084 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“February 20, 1962 —— John Glenn, piloting his Mercury capsule, saw three objects follow him and then overtake him at varying speeds.”

CLAIM-840085 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“May 24, 1962 —— Mercury VII: Scott Carpenter reported photographing firefly-like objects with a hand camera and that he had what looked like a good shot of a saucer.”

CLAIM-840086 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“May 30, 1962 —— X15 Pilot Joe Walton photographed five disc-like objects.”

CLAIM-840087 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“July 17, 1962 —— X15 Pilot Robert White photographed objects about thirty feet away from his craft while about fifty-eight miles up.”

CLAIM-840088 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“May 16, 1963 —— Mercury IX: Gordon Cooper reported a greenish UFO with a red tail during his fifteenth orbit. He also reported other mysterious sightings over South America and Australia. The object he sighted over Perth, Australia, was caught on screens by ground tracking stations.”

CLAIM-840089 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“October 3, 1963 —— Mercury VIII: Walter Schirra reported large glowing masses over the Indian Ocean.”

CLAIM-840090 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“March 8, 1964 —— Voskhod 2: Russian cosmonauts reported an unidentified object just as they entered the earth’s atmosphere.”

CLAIM-840091 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“Neil Armstrong was asleep at the time; I was told that the other two saw something that looked like an open book in the great distance, but when they looked at it through binoculars, it was a cylindrical object.”

CLAIM-840092 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“Astronauts reported seeing a UFO that accompanied them to within 132,000 miles of the moon.”

CLAIM-840093 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“Strange men would appear, sometimes flashing Air Force credentials or NORAD credentials or police credentials, confiscate the evidence and disappear.”

CLAIM-840094 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“They just pass the buck—science passes the buck.”

CLAIM-840095 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“To me, it is inconceivable that in any government like ours, which spends so much money on intelligence work, somebody wouldn’t be interested in this.”

CLAIM-840100 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“Dave Saunders has created. He has computerized reports from various sources.”

CLAIM-840101 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“How do you evaluate pictures? What do you do when somebody reports taking a photograph of a UFO?”

CLAIM-840102 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“Why are pictures so important?”

CLAIM-840103 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“What is the difference between a good fake and a real UFO photograph?”

CLAIM-840104 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“What kind of data can be obtained from photometric analysis?”

CLAIM-840105 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“What is isophotometry?”

CLAIM-840107 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“Poher has been able to correlate apparently random variations in the magnetic fields with periods of intense UFO sightings in France.”

CLAIM-840108 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“It was a large craft. I would say it was fairly close to sixty-five feet across.”

CLAIM-840109 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“They took us out and they took us into the craft. They took us on board. They took Barney into one room, apparently for examination.”

CLAIM-840110 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“They were short. I'd say the leader was the tallest one. He was about five feet. Their features were different from ours in that the eyes were very, very large and they had almost no nose. The skin had a greyish tone to it. They were all dressed alike.”

CLAIM-840111 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“They were all dressed alike.”

CLAIM-840112 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“They took us back to the car and sent us home.”

CLAIM-840113 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“They were both deep-trance types.”

CLAIM-840114 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“They were both kind enough to allow this, and for an hour and a half I talked with Betty and Barney while they were sitting in front of me under hypnosis.”

CLAIM-840115 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“That experience sounds reasonable to me. I think there are many similarities, also many differences, too.”

CLAIM-840116 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“I was dragged in.”

CLAIM-840143 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“He got a very interesting one which I thought was pretty significant. He would show his patients pictures of things and ask them what they were and in a certain position they couldn’t say.”

CLAIM-840144 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“He put these people through numerous hypnotic tricks, such as having them hold their arms straight out in front of them and telling them that they wouldn’t be able to lower their arms.”

CLAIM-840145 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“It is generally believed, and it does seem entirely reasonable, that a good photograph of an unidentified flying object would have 'probative value.'”

CLAIM-840146 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“It was found that most of the photographs examined could have been fabricated by such methods as double exposure, manipulation in the darkroom, or by suspending or throwing a small object and then photographing it against a natural background.”

CLAIM-840147 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“They are chosen not for their probative value but because they are typical of what many thousands of witnesses have reported from all parts of the world, and because so far they have not been identified as conventional objects, technical flaws, or hoaxes.”

CLAIM-840148 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“The official Air Force analysis of these photographs concluded that the object “resembled a hypothetical plasma ball and this could be the explanation of it. It can be shown that such plasma balls are physically possible” (italics mine). The official Air Force conclusion was that the photograph seemed authentic and the case was registered as unidentified.”

CLAIM-840149 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“Several examinations by photo experts revealed no “darkroom magic.” The witnesses signed the Canadian Evidence Act. They were also interrogated at length by an experienced trial lawyer who concluded that had the testimony been heard in court, the witnesses would have passed muster as sincere and believable.”

CLAIM-840150 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“Notice that several persons are looking up at the object.”

CLAIM-840151 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“The vapor trail seen in the second picture was produced by the object.”

CLAIM-840152 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“This self-luminosity was observed by the witness only as the object departed.”

CLAIM-840153 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“This time requirement at a speed in the vicinity of mach .8 rules out many explanations.”

CLAIM-840154 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“The enlargement of the object is 300X.”

CLAIM-840155 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“It looked like it was all ablaze, you know, on fire.”

CLAIM-840169 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“said, “Come on, let’s go out and see what the hell that is.” So we went back into the field again, and I think one of us was in the car with him.”

CLAIM-840170 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“The lights on the object appeared to look like the taillights on a car, and they just went off all of a sudden?”

CLAIM-840173 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“They had it right out in front, they seemed to know everything about me, where I worked, my name, and everything else.”

CLAIM-840174 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“They want to thank you, and he called me by my name, for your cooperation and he said we want you to keep this quiet, “you’d better not say anything about this to anyone from now on “”

CLAIM-840175 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“They never asked anything about the shooting and all their questions were concerned entirely with the first part of the sighting.”

CLAIM-840176 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“They got in their car. I then got pretty upset as they’d left me at home with no way back to work.”

CLAIM-840177 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“The visitation by official-looking men the next day made matters even worse.”

CLAIM-840178 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“They never once. That was never mentioned at all.”

CLAIM-840179 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“These witnesses had in fact lost their sense of reality. They had gone beyond the edge, entered an alternate world.”

CLAIM-840180 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“The Kachina dolls are supposed to be representatives of the sky people, the gods of outer space.”

CLAIM-840181 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“Elementals are said to be creatures in the “etheric realm,” and/or astral domain.”

CLAIM-840182 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“The gods from outer space, a creature from space.”

CLAIM-840183 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“A robot creature that we don’t have in our history except for recent science fiction.”

CLAIM-840184 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“They were described as 'short Italians'!”

CLAIM-840185 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“Also, of course, the people we are seeing now are behaving like space gods. In the religious traditions those have been pretty clear. Creatures with lots of light, and dressed up for the occasion!”

CLAIM-840186 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“HYNEK: They were described as 'short Italians'!”

CLAIM-840187 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“Vallee: My daughter Catherine, when she was about three, had fantasies about two categories of creatures. At least I thought those were fantasies!”

CLAIM-840188 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“Vallee: My daughter Catherine, when she was about three, had fantasies about two categories of creatures. At least I thought those were fantasies!”

CLAIM-840189 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“HASTINGS: One of my friends has a child who is having the same kind of experience, a red light with a man under it.”

CLAIM-840190 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“HYNEK: I’ve been asking various Jesuits and other types what the status of angels is, and they don’t know, they aren’t interested.”

CLAIM-840191 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“Joe Simonton. Now he wasn’t in the same psychological category as Adamski.”

CLAIM-840192 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“They couldn’t tell in great detail, although I think they said it was wheatgerm pancake.”

CLAIM-840194 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“A man named Floyd in the Everglades got too close to one and a beam of light hit him between the eyes. He was blind for several days.”

CLAIM-840195 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“The average distance between the stars in our galaxy is a few light years. Light, faster than which nothing physical can travel, takes years to traverse the distances between the nearest stars.”

CLAIM-840196 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“The most ambitious and unrealistic space project cannot of itself generate a believable external menace.”

CLAIM-840197 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“People shoot at them—the number of incidents where people have shot at UFOs is significant.”

CLAIM-840198 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“The flares were, in fact, flares purposely dropped by an Air Force pilot.”

CLAIM-840199 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“The pilot released five railroad flares attached to separate plastic parachutes.”

CLAIM-840200 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“At an altitude of 10,000 feet the flares were dropped in ten-to-fifteen-second intervals, forming a line from south to north, parallel to the coast.”

CLAIM-840201 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“The light was moving, said the reports, and at times it dashed towards the observers, scaring them seriously.”

CLAIM-840202 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“The object retained a circular shape except for a brief period near the beginning, when it resembled a rectangle, and near the end, when it elongated and disappeared, leaving a slanted streak of smoke or light lingering behind.”

CLAIM-840203 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“The object could have seemed no stranger if it had been a flying disk with portholes.”

CLAIM-840204 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“The data do not give very strong support to the notion that adults are better observers than children, or that responsible people will make better reports than those who have ordinary occupations.”

CLAIM-840206 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“On April 17, 1897, at 6 A.M. that a strange object flew slowly over the public place of Aurora, Texas.”

CLAIM-840212 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“The T. J. Weems that was supposed to have been a U.S. Signal Service Officer was actually the town blacksmith and, according to Mr. Lowry, the Proctor place never had a windmill on it.”

CLAIM-840213 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“I think I questioned something like fifty astronomers, and asked what their opinions were.”

CLAIM-840220 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“A farmer named Frank Mannor and his son had reported a landing in Dexter near Ann Arbor in March, 1966.”

CLAIM-840221 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“The Hillsdale girls had reported lots of lights flickering around the arboretum.”

CLAIM-840222 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“The photograph was obviously the Moon and Venus rising.”

CLAIM-840223 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“I pointed out that I was talking only about the faint lights that had been seen. Those could have been explained as swamp gas.”

CLAIM-840224 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“I was tempted a number of times in the '50s to suspend disbelief and jump over, but as I said before, with scientific training, you have to prove everything and have everything in charts and graphs;”

CLAIM-840237 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“51% of the American public believes in UFOs.”

CLAIM-840238 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“The proportion of scientists who would openly agree that UFOs are real is still very small.”

CLAIM-840239 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“The government wanting a study of UFOs, the military wanting a study of the UFOs, the public wanting a study of the UFOs and the scientists suddenly cut off from both the popular base of science and their sources of funding.”

CLAIM-840240 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“The term “unidentified flying object” falls between Unicorn and Unified Field Theory.”

CLAIM-840251 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“Twenty-six percent of the people said we should shoot them down and seventy-four percent said we shouldn’t.”

CLAIM-840252 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“They say, 'We need more protein and you’re protein!'”

CLAIM-840253 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“They say, 'We don’t want you to make H-bombs anymore and you have to sign this treaty which every planet signs to be accepted into the galactic federation.'”

CLAIM-840254 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“They could stop and go away entirely.”

CLAIM-840255 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“We learn to contact them. We set up a crash program to communicate with them telepathically, using all the characteristics we have learned that somehow seem to be associated with landings and, suddenly, there’s a wave.”

CLAIM-840256 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“The Air Force shoots one down and they attack, they block all electrical communications.”

CLAIM-840257 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“Let’s say you have a billionaire friend who is interested in helping out and you say to him, look, a lot of people are seeing them but they’re not reporting them.”

CLAIM-840258 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“Like the aborigines of New Guinea setting up dummy airports in the jungle to attract airplanes?”

CLAIM-840259 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“Somebody publishes a book that explains what they are—somebody discovers what they are.”

CLAIM-840262 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“Maybe those are holograms that some clever scientists are projecting?”

CLAIM-840264 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“It may be that there is inherent in our species, a sort of built-in defense mechanism that reveals itself only in times of extreme social stress, and that one of its manifestations is the phenomenon known as UFOs.”

CLAIM-840265 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“people describe 'baskets that come down from the sky.'”

CLAIM-840266 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“sky people turned themselves into arrows and went up.”

CLAIM-840267 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“Lutins in Brittany until about 1850.”

CLAIM-840268 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“Society in which everything is produced in thought forms by a computer.”

CLAIM-840269 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“Sending thought forms that will then materialize and beam down.”

CLAIM-840270 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“Eighteen percent of the audience raised their hands in that particular case.”

CLAIM-840271 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“I got one hand. Now this has happened so damn many times that there’s just no question in my mind that there is a reservoir of unreported cases.”

CLAIM-840272 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“I would say, a hundred sightings a night someplace around the world.”

CLAIM-840273 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“That’s rather important. That’s an offhand thing but somewhere we ought to get a kind of order of magnitude.”

CLAIM-840274 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“Psychic projections aren’t picked up on radars, that I know of.”

CLAIM-840275 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“Some are, some not—there are many times when UFOs aren’t picked up.”

CLAIM-840276 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“Psychic projection probably doesn’t have mass.”

CLAIM-840277 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“Psychic projection doesn’t have to obey Newton’s law of gravitation, it doesn’t have to obey F = ma.”

CLAIM-840278 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“Light behaves like a wave and light behaves like a particle.”

CLAIM-840279 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“Man is capable of psychic manifestations because he is a psychic being, just as he is a physiological being.”

CLAIM-840280 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“Nature has never needed an animal that could do that and, therefore, it hasn’t developed it, but it’s a latent ability.”

CLAIM-840281 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“If it should happen that only those people who can compute the cubes of twenty-five-digit numbers in less than one second could survive, then perhaps the human race as a whole would acquire that capability.”

CLAIM-840286 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“He moved behind the swather, climbed up to the seat, and viewed the spinning dome from a higher vantage point.”

CLAIM-840287 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“They seemed to be hovering a foot or two above the ground, and he noted that the grass was in disturbed motion at the base of each object.”

CLAIM-840288 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“After what seemed to be several minutes, the objects suddenly ascended into the air in a step formation to a height of about 200 feet.”

CLAIM-840289 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“A puff of dark gray “vapor” came from the exhaust-like extensions located at the base of each object, accompanied immediately by a downward gust of wind which almost knocked Fuhr’s hat off and flattened the rape that was standing in the immediate area.”

CLAIM-840290 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“Now what does one do with a UFO report like that? One can dismiss it as the product of a deranged mind (especially since there was but one witness to the actual sighting), but there is no evidence whatever that Fuhr was not completely sane, both before and after the event.”

CLAIM-840291 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“Fuhr later learned that, at about the time of his sighting, cattle in a nearby field were bellowing and had broken through a fence in four places.”

CLAIM-840292 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“The grass was not dead and had not been scorched or burned.”

CLAIM-840293 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“The objects were now positioned in a perfect line.”

CLAIM-840294 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“They all went up, straight up, to, I would say, about 200 feet and they stopped at that distance.”

CLAIM-840295 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“I saw something this morning.”

CLAIM-840296 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“That stainless steel bowl”

CLAIM-840297 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“The grass was all flattened out in a clockwise fashion.”

CLAIM-840298 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“The sun had dried the grass and it wasn’t as prominent as before.”

CLAIM-840299 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“No odor to it at all.”

CLAIM-840300 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“The pictures were taken after only about four people had actually seen the rings.”

CLAIM-840301 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“There was no evidence of that in any of the areas.”

CLAIM-840302 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“I slowed the car, stopped, stared. A plane circling? Too many lights. Not that.”

CLAIM-840303 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“The reddish light was in the rear. The bright yellow lights were in a line. Very bright, almost white.”

CLAIM-840304 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“The vehicle was dipped in a slight angle forward. Most baffling, the lights were revolving, from rear to front.”

CLAIM-840305 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“The UFO was sharply visible above the lower tree tops. But when it passed the older, taller oaks, it was obscured by the upper branches, obscured but not blacked out.”

CLAIM-840306 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“I seized on the helicopter idea for several reasons.”

CLAIM-840307 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“No sounds of engines. A chopper at that distance, at that height, would be deafening on a still night in a rustic suburb.”

CLAIM-840308 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“I was tempted to run over, bang on the door, and invite them out to watch.”

CLAIM-840309 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“The UFO went behind still another tree top and was about to go out of sight.”

CLAIM-840310 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“I was amazed that such a ridiculous story should fall on receptive ears.”

CLAIM-840311 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“Of all the aircraft that might have been mistaken for the UFO, only the helicopter was possible, because of the slow tree-top speed and other similarities already discussed.”

CLAIM-840312 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“If they were visitors from space, they could. Perhaps not expecting to find a civilization here, these 'visitors' would not originally have been concerned with the high visibility of their spacecraft.”

CLAIM-840313 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“Thus, with logic, I can rule out flying saucers entirely. They simply are not logical; therefore they are not.”

CLAIM-840314 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“I can’t explain it, but I accept it.”

CLAIM-840315 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“In 1956, while accomplishing strategic ice reconnaissance on a TU-4 airplane (at 300-500 kilometers per hour) with the aircraft commander, Commander Nakhtinov, in the area of Cape Dzhuze (Greenland) and emerging from the clouds into clear weather, we unexpectedly noticed that some sort of unknown aircraft whose shape resembled a large lens was moving parallel to our general course (180°).”

CLAIM-840316 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“At approximately 1725 hours, half way along the route when the airplane flew over the city of Bologoye, a gigantic airplane burst out from beneath the bottom of the fuselage at a tremendous speed and took off at a right angle to the line of flight of our aircraft.”

CLAIM-840317 · jacques fabrice vall e joseph allen hynek the edge Observation

“There are many agents of Hell loosed upon the Earth. They are traveling in transports. Do not be won over to a false theory of life beyond the Heavens, other then (sic) the Kingdom of God! Know that it is Satan who sends these vehicles before you! They are to confuse and confound you!”