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THE UFO EXPERIENCE has an intriguing attraction tor millions of people.
Lectures and programs dealing with man
's
relationship to creatures of outer
space continue to generate widespread interest.
He cites. for cxampl e. the highly
publicizcd "c ra ft wi th 10 large
square windows, brill iantly illumi–
na ted from insidc the object" th a t
many observers repon ed watching
on Ma rch 3. 1968. Actually. claims
Klas , the ' 'su·angc craft from ou ter
~pace"
was a Russian rocket. disin–
tegra ting
a~
it fell to ea rth as a man–
made meteor.
On thc oth cr han d. th e famou s
case of a UFO "landing" outsid e a
Kansas farm
hou~e
' 'as actua lly. ac–
cording to Kla!:>s. a hoax
de~igncd
to
generate publicity - and hopefully
some moncy - for a fam ily in finan–
cia! difficulties.
· ' J
acknowledge that thc idea of
The
PLAIN TRUTH August 1976
visi tors from di stan t worlds is a fas–
ci na ting myth ror adults." muses
Kla ss. " lt is cspecia lly so becausc it
íllls the vo id left many yea rs ago
when we ou tgrew the
l~tncifu l
nnd
wonderful fairy tales of our child–
hood, when an ugly frog could sud–
dcnly become a handsome prince."
Klass has a standing "$ 10.000 of–
fer" for anyone who can actually
dcmonstratc that UFO::. are from
outer space.
Astronomcr and exobiologist Carl
Sagan is cqually skeptica l. " 1 havc
no quarrel with
tho~e
who see un–
idcntified f1ying objcct ." observes
Sagan. " lt is only when th ey are
id cntified that 1 somctimes havc
rni sgivi ngs . As long as pcople a re
crcdu lous and soft-rn inded. and as
long as their wi ·hes determine thc ir
bclicC. there will be a market ror
myths and prcva rica tions dressed
up in the robes of ciencc ."
Bu t Hynck disagrees. "1 think we
may be see in g the birth of a new
science," contcnds Hynck. "Thc
phy ical world we perccivc with our
senscs is by no means the sum total
of our envi ronment. •·
In the fin a l ana lysis. the UFO
controversy pcrsists la rgely because
a ftcr the crank and rcadily ex–
plicable cases have been excluded. a
nettlesomc re idue remains .
Roughly onc in 30 UFO repon.
secmi ngly deflcs satisfactory cx–
planation. For the e espccially puz–
zling cases, three poss ible solutions
ex ist:
l. They
II'Ould
be explicable in
term. of con\'Cntional cience and
known phenomena if thc observa–
ti onal data wcrc on ly more extcn–
sive and prcci!>C. This possibility is
based on the paucity of reliable in–
formation about many UFO sight–
ings. but includcs thc likelihood that
many unsolved UFO reports are se–
crct military aircraft. or simply
clcver. so phist icatcd hoaxes.
2. They resu lt from purely na tural
phenomena which a re ei the r not yct
discovered or not ye t completely un–
derstood. This possibility would in-·
elude certain biza rrc a tmosp her ic
occurrences. plasma (thc so-ca ll ed
fourt h state or matter). and other
rarely encountered events.
3. They a re. in fac t. not of thi s
world. coming from anothe r place
and time. const ructed by an alien
technology and in telligcnce. They
may cven be non physical, super–
na tural "spirit" bcings. This possi –
bi lity. whilc considered to be a
·'cop-out' ' by many. would at least
cx pla in the eemingly "impossible"
fcats that somc UFOs are a lleged ly
capable of perform ing.
Pcrhaps th e fi nal answe r to the
ub iqu itous UFO lies in a com–
binat ion or all three possi bil ities. In
any case. reports of UFOs and ex–
tra tcrrestrial visitation unJoubt–
edly will persist - if only becausc
th ere are so many man-mad e ob–
jects in our twent icth cen tury atmo–
sph cre and bccau e so many people
ha' e the
wi/1
to believe.
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