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The rich really are different. When Laurance S. Rockefeller yes, those Rockefellers wanted to know more about UFOs, he didn’t have to satisfy his curiosity at alien-hunters’ Web sites or in the Weird Science section of Barnes & Noble. He asked Peter A. Sturrock, the former director of the Center for Space Science and Astrophysics at Stanford University, to convene a private meeting of a dozen top scientists at the Pocantico Conference Center, on the grounds of the old Rockefeller family estate 20 miles north of Manhattan. Sturrock’s guest list and agenda was noteworthy for its omissions. Bob Lazar, who claimed to have reverse-engineered UFOs at Area 51, wasn’t invited. Neither was alien-buster Philip J. Klass of the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal. Roswell, the ‘face’ on Mars and other familiar sightings got little attention.
Instead, researchers from Princeton University, Stanford, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the Center for Space Research in France focused on cases with more meat on their bones’ sightings in which physical evidence was left behind. ‘While their findings were not conclusive, I hope [they] will raise the level of the debate,’ Rockefeller said afterward.
Ask most scientists what they think of the UFO enigma and you will almost certainly get a scoff and a brushoff like, ‘There’s not one shred of evidence,’ says Bernard Haisch, an astronomer with more than 100 scientific publications to his credit. ‘That answer is simply not true. The problem is that this evidence does not follow our expected scientific logic, and so scientists dismiss what is, in fact, a huge number of accounts.
Many sighting reports, as absurd as they sometimes appear, are probably real. Most professional scientists never bother to look at the evidence. Instead, the dogmatic dismissals by professional debunkers, which are often patently ridiculous, are simply taken at face value.’ As you will see for yourself, some of the cases discussed at Pocantico are difficult for even die-hard skeptics to ignore.
Police Cruiser Blackout
Luis Delgado was a 28-year-old patrolman for the Haines City, Fla., police department when he became part of one of the most compelling UFO sightings. It happened about 3:50 am, on March 19, 1992. Delgado noticed a rapidly descending green light in his rearview mirror as he drove down a street alongside a citrus grove. The light seemed to keep pace with his cruiser, until he slowed down.
Then the silent, dome-shaped object flew overhead, filling his police cruiser with a brilliant green glow. He pulled to a stop, and the power in his vehicle went dead. For the next several minutes he stood outside his car watching the 15-ft.-wide craft hover silently in front of him. It seemed to float about 10 ft. off the ground, cooling the surrounding air to the point at which it formed a foggy mist. Then, just as quickly as it appeared, it sped away. Delgado returned to his car, and found the electrical system was again operating.
‘The scientific panel was very impressed by cases in which electrical equipment was disrupted,’ says Michael D. Swords, of Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Mich. A conference participant at Pocantico, Swords told Popular Mechanics that this type of encounter is far more common than most people realize. UFO investigator Mark Rodeghier of the Center for UFO Studies in Chicago told the conference at Pocantico that over the past 50 years more than 500 similar reports had been filed.
What distinguishes the Delgado sighting is the inherent credibility of the observer. As a police officer, Delgado had nothing to gain and possibly a great deal to lose by coming forward with his account.