In talk to the Burro Club luncheon meeting on June 3, 1968, Rayburn Building,
Washington, D.C., author asks for a Congressional inquiry into the UFO
phenomenon; He emphasizes that the inquiry should be assigned to a committee
primarily concerned with matters of science and technology.
Mayfield, Melburn R. The rise of gravity in the 17th century; or a life in the day
of Isaac Newton. Physics today, Jun"? 1968: 42-46.
Satirical verse purporting to "bring a powerful new insight into some of the long-
standing mysteries concerning the personal and professional life of Sir Isaac
Newton": the source of his "philosophical innovations" and "mathematical
elegancies" was a beautiful female flying saucer occupant.
Moller, P.S. Eng1neering professor teaches UFO course at the University of
California. American engineer, May 1968: 32-34.
Students discuss social and technical implications of worldwide UFO sightings
in an experimental course, "Flying Saucers: The Social a.1d Technological
Implications," given at the University of California at David.
Morse, Robert F. UFOs and the technological community. American engineer,
May 1968: 24-28.
Noting that reports of unidentified flying ob1ects have been with us for at least
two decades, the author says the time has come to enlist the full resources of
the technological community, worldwide, in an examination of these persistent
and as yet unexplained sighting reports.
Natural lasers cause UFOs? 'The laser weekly, v. 1, no. 2~: 2.
According to Victor T. Tomberg of the Biophysics Research Lab at New York
Medical College, natural laser action in space may be responsible for UFO
phenomena. Tomberg maintains that natural laser and maser action should
exist in outer space. He also claims that this concentrated radiation may be
aimed at our sky and might explain some of the unidentified flying objects that
have been reported.
Page, Thorton. Letters: French UFOs. Science, v. 161, August 16, 1968: 631.
Author insists on the accuracy of his claim that no telescope or observatory has
taken a picture of~ UFO. He says that photographs taken at Forcalquier
Observatory, Fra11ce, May 3-4, 1957, described by Jacques Vallee in Challengg_
to Science (Chicago, Henry Regnery, 1966) do not fit the hypothesis of extra-
terrestrial bodies entering our atmosphere at 5 to 7 miles per second.
------------- Photographic sky coverage for the detection of UFOs? Science,
v. 160, June 14, 1968: 1258-1260.
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