Postulating that the public has become accustomed to readily accepting the
incredible, the author says it is difficult to find a scientist who will publicly
dispute what appears to be patently ridiculous. He discusses in this context
circumstances surrounding th?. death of the horse, Snippy, in Colorado during
September 1967.
Capparella, Angelo, ill. Letters: French UFOs. Science, v. 161, August 16,
1968: 631.
Author challenges statement by Thornton Page of Wesleyan University (Science,
v. 160, June 14, 1968: 1258) that no telescope or obsenatory has taken a
picture of a UFO. He notes that Jacques Vallee mentions in Challenge to
Science (Chicago, He:i.ry Regnery, 1966) that two images were recorded by the
trajecto!'y analyzers at Forcalquier Observatory, France, May 3-4, 1957.
U.S. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Astronautics. Symposium on
unidentified flying objects. LWashington, U.S. Govt. Printing Office, 19619'
247 p. (90th Congress, 2d session. House. Report no. 7).
Contains statements by Dr. J. Allen Hynek, Dr. James E. McDonald, Dr. Carl
Sagan, Dr. Robert L. Hall, Dr. James A. Harder and Dr. Robert M. L. Baker
Prepared papers ai"e included by Dr. Donald H. Menzel, Dr. R. Leo Sprinkle,
Dr. Garry C. Henderson, Dr. Stanton T. Friedman, Dr. Ro~er N. Shepard
and Dr. Frank B. Salisbury.
Cote, Alfred J. UF'O study credibility cloud? Industrial research, June 1968:
26-28.
Following conclusions emerged as the result of Industrial Research inquiry into
status of University of Colorado UFO study: (1) the project does not stress
investigation of the people doing the observing, rather than of physical
phenomena; (2) there appears to be no effort in the study directed at a serious
evaluation of extraterrestrial hypotheses; (3) a follow-on investigation apparently
will be proposed in the final report, in a chapter that treats future government
handling of UFOs.
Fowler, Raymond E. Engineer involvemeut in UFO investigations. American
engineer, May 1968: 29-31.
The Massachusetts Investigating Subcommittee of the National Investigations
Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP) has enlisted engineering taJ.ent to
assist in solving the UFO phenomenon. During 1967, approximately 100 UFO
sightings were investigated in Massachusetts under engineer supervision.
(U.S.) GAO imcstigating contract on UFOs. Scientific research, June 10, 1968: 18.
Details are given of U.S. General Accounting Office scrutiny of the University
ot Colorado contract requested by Congressman J. Edward Roush (D-Ind. ).
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