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© 1999 SIRS Mandarin, Inc. -- SIRS Researcher Spring 1999
Title: Scientists: UFO Reports May Be Worth Evaluating
Author: Michelle Levander
Source: San Jose Mercury News (San Jose, CA)
Publication Date: June 28, 1998 Page Number(s): n.p.
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SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS
(San Jose, Calif.)
June 28, 1998, n.p.
(c) 1998, Knight-Ridder Newspapers. Distributed by
Knight-Ridder/Tribune Information Services.
SCIENTISTS: UFO REPORTS MAY BE WORTH EVALUATING
by Michelle Levander
Mercury News Staff Writer
For more than 50 years, UFO investigators have scoured the skies for signs of alien life--completely snubbed by the scientific community as cranks.
But today, in the first independent scientific review of UFO evidence in nearly 30 years, scientists gave a faint nod in their direction by concluding that it might be worthwhile to evaluate UFO reports, marking a major and important shift in the eyes of some UFO investigators.
What we need are more scientists looking at this area if we are going to get answers, said Peter Sturrock, the Stanford University physicist who convened the international panel of skeptical scientists. Sturrock assembled the group after being approached by New York philanthropist Laurance S. Rockefeller, the grandson of John D. Rockefeller and someone who reportedly has a longstanding interest in UFOs and psychic phenomena.
Sturrock, whose Society for Scientific Exploration promotes the examination of ideas outside the scientific mainstream, hopes the panel's review of UFO reports, to be published today in the alternative Journal of Scientific Exploration, spurs more solid research in the arena.
To be sure, after a rare meeting between scientists and UFO investigators, the scientific panel remained skeptical. Nevertheless, they said the scientific community's refusal to even entertain the analysis of such information has been counterproductive.
The history of Earth science includes several examples of the final acceptance of phenomena originally dismissed as folk tales, such as meteorites and sprites, the report says. It may therefore be valuable to carefully evaluate UFO reports to extract information about unusual phenomena currently unknown to science.
One UFO investigator was pleased with the findings.
OPENNESS, EVIDENCE
Mark Rodeghier, of the Center for UFO Study in Chicago, interprets the panel's greater openness as an important step to bring the world of science--which demands empirical e...

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