The UFO Controversy in America by David M Jacobs (1975).pdf

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THE

BATTLE OVER

UFOS . • • •

7896-97: Airship sightings throughout the

country-the work of an unknown American

inventor, or the product of an alien tech

nology?

World War II: The "foo-ighters" spoted dur·

ing air battles-were they static electricity,

enemy secret weapons, or extraterrestrial

observers?

J950s: The age of the contactees-sane, r·

sponsible sky watchers, or irrational people

sufering from the delusion that they have

been chosen by the "space brothers"?

J 960s: The Condon Report vs. the UFO or

ganizations-who's telling the truth?

J970s: The scientists join the fray-but which

ones have the right theory?

Unidentiied Flying Objects have been with us

a long time. Scientists have developed their

own pet theories about UFOs. Many people

have seen or claimed to see them. And even the

Air Force and Congress have investigated the

phenomena. Now Professor Jacobs puts all the

facts together in one book, revealing the gov

ernment cover-ups, the work of leading sci

entists, the activities of the national UFO

organizations, and actual cases of

UO sight

ings, contactee reports, and trace evidence

found. Here is the complete truth about

THE UFO

CONTROVERSY IN

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Contents

vii

Foreword

Acknowledgments

ome Words of Explanation

The Mystery Airship: Preliminaries

to the Controversy

The Modern Era Begins: Attempts to

Reduce the Mystery

The 1952 Wave: Eforts to Meet

the Crisis

The Robetson Panel and Its Efects

on Air Force UFO Policy

Contactees, Clubs, and Confusion

6. 1954 to 1958: Continued Skirmishes

and the Rise of NICAP

117

7 .

The Batle for Congressional Hearings

140

1965: The Turning Point in the

Contro v ersy

171

The Condon Commitee and

Its Aftermath

200

10. 1973: Echoes of the Past

235

Air Force UFO Statistics

270

Notes

27 1

A Note on Sources

307

Selected Bibliography

309

Index

321

Foreword

Scientic controversy has a rich istoy. nd in modern

times no controversy in science hs had the global extent, the

awareness by the public, the display of s

entiic argument and

prejudice, the involvement of the media, and the scientic dlu

tion of, and gross distraction from, the man issues by reliious

' fanatics, visionaries, and charlatans, s has the phenomenon of

, the Unidentiied Flying Object (UFO).

The UFO ontroversy has

ntl

now is hs been only partialy and not coherently docu

mented from about the turn of this century to the presen.

There is only sporadic docmentation n earlier cenries.

Indeed, n earlier ti

re lat ivel y long history, b u t

es there could hardly be said to have been

conroversy , although he phenomenon apparenly ws

present.

The need of a sober non-patisan complation and docu

mentaion of the controversy itse l f arises precise ly because the

UFO penomenon has elicited s strong an emotional

patisan response as any scientiic controversy n histoy.

Certily i t has nvolved far more people

lobl

bsis, thn he classic scientiic controversies on, say, meteor

ites, continental dift, mechanical naure of heat, relatiity, and

even biological evolution and natural selection. The latter,

however, is perhaps the oly controversy in which basic emo-

nd on

iona! responses, buttressed by deep-seated reliious and per

sonal prejudice, played so major a role.

ndeed, there is an interestng anti - parallelism between

controversy surounding the theoy of biological evoluion and

that srrounding the UFO phenomenon. n the gradual ise of

the concept of biological evolution, here was irst he slow

acceptance at the top echelons of bioloical science before

these conceps iltered down to the popular levels. It was at

these lower levels

however, where he greatest emotionl

and srcharged p r

cial responses were generated. Human

dinity , it seemed to the man on the street, was at stake, s

was religious orthodoxy, and he new conceps were stubborn

ly r

by he "rass roos"

vey

te d

openly o mb

t ed

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