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The Scientific Investigation of Unidentified Flying Objects
An Analysis of Blue Book Report #14
By Bruce Maccabee
Our Price: $12.00
Our Item Code: MaccabeeBB14
Postage Code: book1
51 Pages, Stapled Report
Cover Size: 8.5 x 11 inches
Fund for UFO Research
Related listings: Project Bluebook
Date: Unknown Date
ISBN: fufor-h014
Added to Catalog: 5/16/98
WIRT: 44233233
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Features: Bibliography, Appendix, Diagrams, Larger Format
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Our Review |
Opinion of the webmaster, subject to debate |
Credibility
4
High |
Research Value
4
High |
Cultural Interest
2
Low |
Visual Information
3
Moderate |
Style
3
Functional |
Silliness
2
Low |
Wow Factor
3
Interesting |
Bargain
3
Moderate |
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Explanation of Ratings
Visual Information = Moderate: Many charts and tables analysing UFO reports.
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Maccabee's analysis of Blue Book Special Report #14,
a UFO study conducted by the Battelle
Memorial Institute for the Air Force.
"The government should conduct a scientific study," is a frequent
refrain among ufologists.
Indeed, the government already has.
Beginning in 1952, Battelle analysed over 4000 UFO reports,
mostly obtained through military channels.
Maccabee contends that this is the most
comprehensive and scientific UFO report conducted to date.
Maccabee uses the study's own data to dispute the report's
final conclusion
Originally published in the Journal for UFO Studies,
Vols. I and III.
-- Glenn Campbell
Comparison to Other Books
A useful supplement to Steiger's
Project Bluebook.
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Publisher's Synopsis
The most
complete analysis
ever published of
the Air Force's
Project Blue Book
Special Report
#14, which was
based on a study
by Battelle
Memorial
Institute.
From the Book Cover
ABSTRACT
Many, if not most UFO investgators would agree with the claim that
"a scientific investigation of UFOs should be undertaken to solve the UFO
question once and for all."
Agreement with this claim would imply a belief that
(a) scientific investigation of UFOs is possible, and
(b) no truly scientific investigation has yet been done.
Probably most scientists would agree on the first point
although they would disagree over which branch or branches of science should be
involved.
The content of many UFO reports suggests that the physical science should
be involved, whilc the bizarre nature of many reports
suggests that psychological and/or physiological sciences should also be involved.
Althouhg it is my opinion that all of these sciences should be invovled,
I believe the exisitence of UFO report shouls be of special
interest to physical scientists because psychologists have argued that
there must be some objective phenomena
(i.e. phonomena outside the body of the UFO witness,
as opposed to subjective phenomena such as delusions, hallucinations,
etc., which are associated with the workings of the body of the
UFO witness) which has given rise to most UFO reports.
The nature or cause(s) of these objective phenomena has been in dispute for over twenty-five years
and continues in dispute at the present time. I shall not, therefore,
try to identify the underlying cause or causes of UFO reports,
although I implicitly assume that the cause is physical.
Instead I shall concentrate on the problems of scientific
investigation of UFO reports and on the Air Force's Special
Report #14, in particular.
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