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From: jan@cyberzone.net (Jan Aldrich)
Date: Sun, 28 Sep 1997 00:40:54 -0700
Fwd Date: Sun, 28 Sep 1997 06:07:46 -0400
Subject: Historical Figures: Prof. Charles Maney

Professor Charles A. Maney was head of the physics
department at Defiance College, Ohio.  He received
his BA at the University of Minnesota, MS at the
University of Chicago.  He did further work at the
University of Michigan and the University of Kenturcky.
He died in the late 1960s.

He shares credit with the late Prof. Edwin B. Frost,
former director of Yerkes Observatory, for the first
spectroscopic measurements of the internal motion of
the Orion Nebula.  He was author of several research
studies in the field of higher education.  In 1952 his
research "Experimental Study of Sliding Friction"
resulted in new concepts of sliding friction which were
published in "The American Journal of Physics."

Prof. Maney wrote extensively for Flying Saucer Review
and other UFO journals.  He also carried correspondence
with a large number of people on various research topics.
Unfortunately, most of his personal papers are not available
and their whereabouts is unknown.  He conducted a three way
correspondence with Capt. William B. Nash and Dr. Donald H.
Menzel concerning Nash's sighting of July 1952 over Norfolk,
Virginia while piloting a Pan American Airway airliner.  Most
of the Maney-Menzel-Nash letters are available in Menzel's
UFO papers at the American Philosophical Society, although
Richard Hall also has some of this correspondence material.

With Richard Hall, Maney authored "The Challenge of Unidentified
Flying Objects."  The quality of the private printing speaks
volumes of the problems of publishing a UFO book in the early
1960s.

Maney was a member of the Board of Governor of NICAP and an
adviser for the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization (APRO).

On 20 May 1962, Prof. Maney and six others saw a maneuvering light
which turned sharply and changed speed and position erratically.
An account of the sighting can be found on page 55 of The UFO
Evidence.  On page 54 of The UFO Evidence is an account from
another university scientist of a 24 November 1960 UFO sighting
that Prof. Maney obtained.

My only contact with Prof. Maney concerned Project A, a UFO
study, that Ohio Northern University had announced in the
early 1950s.  It failed to obtain enough sighting reports, and
the project was closed.  In the early 1960s, I tried to look
at the project's  records. I was told the records no longer
existed.  I wrote to Prof. Maney who told me he also had tried
to obtain Project A's records and was satisfied the records no
longer existed.  (John Timmerman of CUFOS would later confirm
this.)

--
Jan Aldrich
Project 1947
http://www.iufog.org/project1947/

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