Posted on 05/07/2006 12:25:53 PM PDT by oxcart
UFO study finds no sign of aliens Mark Simpson BBC News
The 400-page report was kept secret for six years Alleged UFO sightings A confidential Ministry of Defence report on Unidentified Flying Objects has concluded that there is no proof of alien life forms. In spite of the secrecy surrounding the UFO study, it seems citizens of planet Earth have little to worry about.
The report, which was completed in 2000 and stamped "Secret: UK Eyes Only", has been made public for the first time.
Only a small number of copies were produced and the identity of the man who wrote it has been protected.
His findings were only made public thanks to the Freedom of Information Act, after a request by Sheffield Hallam University academic Dr David Clarke.
The four-year study - entitled Unidentified Aerial Phenomena in the UK - tackles the long-running question by UFO-spotters: "Is anyone out there?"
The answer, it seems, is "no".
HAVE YOUR SAY Never in thirty years of working out of doors at all hours have I seen anything that cannot be explained by a few seconds reasoned thought Barry P, Havant, UK
The 400-page report puts it like this: "No evidence exists to suggest that the phenomena seen are hostile or under any type of control, other than that of natural physical forces."
It adds: "There is no evidence that 'solid' objects exist which could cause a collision hazard."
So if there are no such things as little green men in spaceships or flying saucers, why have so many people reported seeing them?
Well, here is the science bit.
"Evidence suggests that meteors and their well-known effects and, possibly some other less-known effects are responsible for some unidentified aerial phenomena," concludes the report.
"Considerable evidence exists to support the thesis that the events are almost certainly attributable to physical, electrical and magnetic phenomena in the atmosphere, mesosphere and ionosphere.
"They appear to originate due to more than one set of weather and electrically-charged conditions and are observed so infrequently as to make them unique to the majority of observers."
People who claim to have had a "close encounter" are often difficult to persuade that they did not really see what they thought they saw. The report offers a possible medical explanation.
"The close proximity of plasma related fields can adversely affect a vehicle or person," states the report.
"Local fields of this type have been medically proven to cause responses in the temporal lobes of the human brain. These result in the observer sustaining (and later describing and retaining) his or her own vivid, but mainly incorrect, description of what is experienced."
There are, of course, other causes of UFOs - aeroplanes with particularly bright lights, stray odd-shaped balloons and strange flocks of birds, to name but a few.
Yet, it will be difficult to convince everyone that there is a rational explanation for all mysterious movements in the sky.
Some UFO-spotters believe governments will always cover up the truth about UFOs, because they are afraid of admitting that there is something beyond their control.
It is not clear how much time and effort the MoD has spent looking at the skies in recent years, but it appears there are no plans for an in-depth UFO report like the one written in 2000.
A MoD spokesperson said: "Both this study and the original "Flying Saucer Working Party" [already in public domain in the national Archives] concluded that there is insufficient evidence to indicate the presence of any genuine unidentified aerial phenomena.
"It is unlikely that we would carry out any future studies unless such evidence were to emerge."
Story from BBC NEWS: http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/uk_news/4981720.stm
Published: 2006/05/07 12:35:27 GMT
© BBC MMVI
At least they aren't wielding ray guns!
But that doesn't explain the phenomena....why should these folks have had such shared dreams when exposed to even artificially induced EM....memory triggers?
It would be more logical to expect that each individual should have had varied experiences and not the shared imagery types(aliens doing medical research) based on each individual's psyche. Something stinks about the stated Sudbury research...or the report is a smokescreen!
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Very well put. I greatly agree.
IIRC, some such SR71 pilots did see UFO's keeping up with them and playing games with them rather easily--and then zooming off at many times the speed of the SR71.
You have to remember that culture plays into it as well. In the past people saw angels and demons everywhere, in the aviation age we see UFOs. We've all heard so many stories about grey aliens abducting people for experiments that it can and does influence our dreams. The most likely effect of the EM activity is to amplify those dreams and/or make people more likely to remember them after they wake up.
It's possible that one's awareness of being a research subject could be a memory trigger for alien-abduction scenarios. I doubt that the EM would cause specific types of dreams but would amplifly the baggage already floating around in the psyche. It would be fascinating to see the effects on people from pre-industrial cultures.
Yeah, but what if they did search for "illegal" aliens in the universe?? I wonder how many other planets have our problem, or are we just unique in the universe??
"UFO study finds no sign of aliens"
The report was edited by the stonecutters!
I guess I'll have to re-orient my memories since the UFO I saw in 1970 was at three in the morning, no lights, cigar shaped and huge with no wings, flying against a starlite/no Moon sky and flew over my VW front windshield and the open sunroof without making a sound though only perhaps 100 feet overhead! Silly eyes ...
Absence of evidence is no evidence of absence On the other hand, those that know-- don't tell-- and those that tell--- don't know. But it is fun looking
Two words:
Rendlesham Forest.
This is bullshit. I had a great aunt who saw a flying saucer as well as a burn circle. I also have a cousin and an aunt who saw UFOs.
FWIW, in one of my dreams, I decided not to let the left hand know what the right was doing. I wasn't sure I was in a dream or not due to its vividness, but unexpectedly turned around and focused on a small portion of the image I perceived,..zooming up on it in my focus trying to see how detailed it was. I had anticipated I would either see an analog blurring or more analytic complexity.
Instead, much to my surprise I observed pixelation, then turned to another thinking process entirely to avoid one thought process knowing what the other was following.
The thoughts I had in the dream were placed upon me by another,..not my synthesis, yet when I tested the situation, unexpected results followed, implying the 'dream' might not have been as natural as one would predict.
For example, if the dream had simply been a biochemical process, analytic fcns in imagery would have prevailed. If quantum changes occured, they would not have been as orderly as pixelation. I hadn't thought of that as a test when I 'zoomed in' on the image I perceived.
Which has led me to ponder the question, Do angels use computers? (which in turn could really lead to more probing questions such as,...and if so, how many frequent FR?...)
I have my hands full with domain, so I don't worry too much about it, but boy it sure is nervewracking when things like that happen.. <;^)
Thank You!
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