Are UFOs Extraterrestrial? Exploring Some Alternatives

http://ufo.whipnet.org/xdocs/underwater.ufo/index.html

http://www.trueufosightings.com/ufo-water-and-truth-decay-101.html

http://www.ufoevidence.org/Cases/CaseView.asp?section=Water

http://www.ufo-reports.com/ufo-reports-archives.html once you get to this site, scroll down to the section subtitled, “USO Sightings – Unidentified Submerged Objects”

The copyright for this image file is held by this writer and artist, Bill M. Tracer

Enigmatic Rendezvous

A Final Case History to take a look at

The above image is an artistic recreation I designed to depict an eyewitness account I collected from a local friend back in 1994. The witness and another friend were hiking in a park north of Memphis, Tennessee. They decided to head back to their car, as the hour was getting late approaching dusk, when they noticed a multicolored glowing orb meandering through the forest trees, leaving a wispy purple trail in its wake. They ran through the trees following the orb as it approached the Mississippi River. When they came to the river bank, they saw a silvery metallic domed saucer shaped craft giving off a bluish glow, floating silently over the river. A ring of similar orbs appeared imbedded into the top of the craft, with one empty depression. The orb they had followed zoomed up to the larger craft, and came to rest within the empty depression, completing the ring. They both stood amazed as the craft slowly traveled away northward over the river until it left their line of sight. My friend said he rarely spoke of this incident, since most people scoffed whenever he mentioned it. He had since fallen out of contact with the other eyewitness, so I was unable to interview that other witness. This case is just one among many eyewitness encounters for which conventional explanations fail to account.

A Call for a Wider Scientific Study

Exotic and unidentified craft carry out maneuvers in our skies all around us, and apparently have done so with impunity for centuries, perhaps millennia. It is a sad and unfortunate thing that those few scientists who’ve had the courage to actually take the time to study this phenomenon are far too often ridiculed and looked down upon by their peers. It is past time for the rest of us to rise up and insist on a change to this mistreatment of both the eyewitnesses and those who see the need for a genuine scientific study of their accounts. What are scientists afraid of, actually learning that UFOs are real? Apparently, for that’s exactly what happened to Astronomy Professor, J. Allen Hynek, (1910-1986), who at the behest of the US Air Force became the astronomical consultant to Project Grudge, then subsequently Project Blue Book. He began his study of UFO cases as a skeptic in 1949, but over the years shifted over from his extreme skepticism to one who believed UFOs represented, as he put it, “an aspect or domain of the natural world not yet explored by science.”

More information about Professor Hynek can be found at:

http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/H/Hynek.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Allen_Hynek

http://www.ufoevidence.org/documents/doc757.htm

We need more scientists with the kind of integrity and honest courage typified by Dr. J. Allen Hynek to do justice to serious scientific analysis of the UFO phenomenon.