The first scientist in the world to personally study UFOs is Dr. Hailmann oberth, who is known as the "father of space navigation" and a great scientist who established the foundation of modern rocket theory. Entrusted by the German government, in the three years from 1953, he selected the most reliable 8 from about 7, eyewitness reports, from which he calculated the aviation engineering performance of UFOs, and came to the conclusion: "Science can regard the impossible and unverifiable problems as possible, and in order to explain the observed facts, we must effectively consider the operational hypothesis. In the existing job hypothesis, UFO is a flying object manipulated by extraterrestrial intelligent life, which is most suitable for observing facts. "

Dr. Jacques Valle, a French astronomer and computer scientist (now a professor at Stanford University in the United States), made a statistical analysis of more than 2 landing and boarding sightings from Western Europe to the Middle East in 1954 (he was the first scientist to study UFOs by statistical means), and found many things that overturned the "regularity" basis of the negative theory.

If the witness events are inversely proportional to the population density, this is contrary to the theory that the larger the population, the more likely it is to produce group illusion; Eyewitness events occur in daily life, and witnesses are not biased in gender, age, occupation and education, which contradicts the theory of hallucination and morbid delusion; The diameter of UFO measured from landing marks or inferred from the situation is about 5 meters, which implies that UFO phenomenon is more physical than psychological; The distribution of witness time and landing site shows that there is intelligent control.

in p>1966, when Dr. Valle published his research results, he said: "As long as UFO is not rejected as an aerial object, it is unreasonable not to take the UFO landing report as the research object. As long as the possibility of being controlled by wisdom is admitted, there is no reason to deny the possibility of UFO landing and crew landing. "

many scientists have witnessed UFOs. The earlier one was the famous astronomer and discoverer of Pluto, Dick Tombaugh.

On August 2th, 1979, he, his wife and mother-in-law saw "six to eight rectangular green lights" outside their residence in Seth, Lascroux, New Mexico. "This is the porthole of a huge hull with a vague outline in the night sky, which gradually becomes smaller and finally disappears as it goes away. If this is a reflection of an object on the ground, the same phenomenon should occur frequently.

"I often make astronomical observations in my own courtyard, but I have only seen this phenomenon once at that time."

In p>1973, the physicist Starlock of the Plasma Research Institute of Stanford University conducted a survey among professional astronomers in the United States. Among the 1,356 respondents, 56% held a positive attitude and thought that it was "worthy of scientific research", and 4.6%, that is, 62 people, "witnessed UFOs with their own eyes". For example, a member of the Sacramento Peak Observatory in New Mexico said that on the evening of October 11, 1974, "the small truck I was driving was winding along the mountain road and suddenly met a UFO flying horizontally over the front. The engine stopped and the truck could not move forward.

"This is a disc-shaped object. Then, it suddenly accelerated in the vertical direction, became smaller and disappeared within a few seconds. At this time, the car returned to normal. "

In p>1979, Industrial Survey, a professional magazine of industrial science (92% of the readers had a doctorate, master's degree or a degree in soil science), surveyed the whole scientific and technological field, and 1,2 readers sent back survey cards, of which 8% had witnessed UFOs, 1% had seen something similar to UFOs, and answered "UFOs do exist" and most ships exist ".

The fundamental view of the main schools of UFO research is that there are intelligent creatures outside the earth, and UFO is the most realistic evidence of this view. However, in recent years, although UFOs continue to appear, people do not have sufficient evidence to prove that UFOs are spaceships of extraterrestrial intelligence, which once put UFO research in a dilemma, and even the confidence of some UFO experts who advocate the above views began to waver, thinking that UFO research has gone astray.

has p>UFO research really gone astray? The answer is no. Some evidence that appeared in the late 198s is encouraging, and they may have a great influence on UFO research.

In early September 1988, Carlos Paz, director of the Peruvian Institute of Interstellar Relations, told the press that in mid-September 1988, when Mars approached the Earth, there would be a large number of flying saucers coming to visit the Earth, as in previous times. His prediction was soon confirmed, and UFO swarms appeared in Peru and South Africa soon, with many witnesses.

Paz, an expert in the study of alien civilization, has been engaged in this research for more than 2 years. In his new book Other Worlds We Know, he introduces in detail the research results of him and his companions for decades.

He said that through 26 years' research, it has been proved that there are 86 kinds of aliens. These aliens are only 2 cm short and 1 meters high, of which 85% can breathe the air on the earth, 2% wear masks and 5% wear diving suits, which seems to come from a world with water. A very small number of them have no nasal cavity at all, and they can breathe with their skin.

among the numerous natural mysteries, UFO is the biggest one, which makes people feel the most mysterious and has aroused the strong interest of hundreds of millions of people. However, for more than 3 years, the UFO problem has not been clarified, but has been confused.

Although more and more people believe that some UFOs are alien flying saucers, orthodox scientific circles (including most scientists) and governments of various countries (except France) deny the existence of UFOs, arguing that UFOs are nothing more than sounding balloons, meteors, illusory phantoms or unknown atmospheric physical phenomena. Indeed, limited by the knowledge level of witnesses, most of the sightings regard airplanes and balloons as flying saucers, and some are indeed some unknown atmospheric physical phenomena, such as terrestrial light and so on. At the beginning of August 1997, an American newspaper published an article saying that a large number of UFO phenomena appeared in the 195s were actually secret experiments conducted by the US military.

This remark caused an uproar in the world. Even so, the US military did not stand up to confirm this. In addition, there are quite a few UFOs that cannot be explained, many of which were witnessed by scientists and pilots. Can an astronomer regard a meteor as a UFO? Are all the people on the plane hallucinating at the same time?

One of the characteristics of p>UFO is that they can't be studied in the laboratory, and there are no formulas available, and there is not even definitive evidence.

this is one reason why it is not recognized by the orthodox scientific community. People are used to using electronic and optical instruments to provide data and using formula calculus analysis to verify a discovery. However, the study of UFO, but there is no instrument available, and it can not be repeated, so it is difficult to accept.

After a plane flies over our heads, we can continue to know where it is, and people will see the plane at the next place in its flight direction. But it used to be a solid and tangible UFO. After disturbing cars and planes last night, where is it now? No one may see it again in the direction where it disappeared, and radar and infrared detectors monitoring the whole area have not found it. In fact, it disappeared from reality.

It can be seen that the research on UFO is very different from the current traditional science. At the same time, because a group of fanatical UFOs often exaggerate, even falsify, fabricate UFO contact events out of thin air and forge UFO photos, the reputation of UFO research has fallen sharply, which makes most scientists feel disgusted with UFO phenomenon, and they have neither interest nor time to study.

In this case, it is easy to conclude that UFOs don't exist at all.

UFO deniers often use the existing scientific laws to explain the impossibility of UFO phenomena, such as "there can't be a flying saucer in the atmosphere at such a high speed, otherwise it will produce a shock wave", "such a large acceleration will crush everything" and "the flying saucer is so small, if it flies from other galaxies, where is its fuel?" Wait a minute. They also tend to move Einstein's theory of relativity out and accuse "UFO research does not follow scientific laws."

If you ask in general, is Einstein's theory of relativity absolutely correct? Maybe everyone will hold a negative attitude, but it is another matter on specific issues. Now people are trying to study the unified field theory and the white hole problem, and more and more people are inclined to complete the space voyage instantly, at least it doesn't take as much time as originally thought. UFO deniers once ridiculed: "For UFO researchers, as long as there are unsolvable problems, it is necessary to modify the theory of modern science."

The British UFO Research Association has classified, compared and studied the characteristics of UFO in the collected UFO data, and concluded that the legendary UFO phenomenon does not exist. Now it seems that "flying saucer" is not a concrete manifestation of "outer space technology", but may be a natural phenomenon that occurs on the earth.

Its appearance is closely related to geographical conditions, and it may be an unknown atmospheric phenomenon. For example, a kind of "flying saucer" mentioned in some materials is oval, with a diameter of 1 to 3 meters, rotates around the main shaft, approaches the ground and emits large-area electromagnetic radiation. Now scientists have been able to confirm its existence by some means.

and named it "Unknown Atmospheric Phenomenon" (VAP) to distinguish it from possible UFO.

In a word, the phenomenon of flying saucer is worth discussing, and it is a science worth studying.

Of course, the general trend in the scientific community is still to doubt the reality of UFOs.

But "observing the facts" leads to the hypothesis of "extraterrestrial spacecraft". Dr. J. Haynek, a prestigious UFO scholar in the United States, used to be a powerful negator, but he changed his attitude after contacting a large number of eyewitness reports and witnesses. He has held a series of scientific positions, from the head of the astronomy department of the university to the director of the Observatory.

In p>1976, he told reporters at the UFO Research Center in Illinois: "It is forbidden for scientists' conscience to pretend ignorance of such information until they deny the witness's personality. Contempt and disregard are by no means part of the scientific method. "

It seems that the scientific debate on the existence of UFOs will continue for a long time in the future. But one thing is certain. If you deny it easily, the result will not change the easy affirmation. This emblem is unscientific.

Although governments around the world still hold a negative attitude towards UFOs and seem indifferent, the French Ministry of Defence actually started a secret investigation with the concentrated events in 1954. Since 197, the National Space Research Center has continued its investigation. The astronomer Claude Boer, director of the center's science planning department, closely compared the 35, witness reports collected by the Ministry of National Defense with balloons, airplanes, satellites, meteors and stars by computer, and then analyzed about 1, cases that are not equal to known phenomena, and obtained the following interesting information:

① The basic forms of UFOs are disc-shaped, spherical and leaf-rolled; (2) usually orange-red light at night, and the color of metal is polished by ink during the day; ③ Orbit ignores the laws of physics and mechanics; ④ The number of witness reports is about 1% of the actual number; ⑤ 3% of the eyewitness events occur in the daytime and 7% in the night, which is inversely proportional to the outdoor activity time of human beings; ⑥ About 1% of the sightings were landing sightings, and half of them were passengers. ⑦ Witness events are directly proportional to atmospheric transparency; (8) Witnesses are not biased in occupation, education or age; Pet-name ruby eyewitness events are related to magnetic field anomalies; ④ It is a physical phenomenon, not a psychological phenomenon.

This investigation by Boer has removed the self-consciousness and brought great progress to UFO research.

In the United States, if a UFO sighting happens, the local police often ignore it as a lie or a mistake. Even if some investigations are made, they are almost always handed over to folk UFO groups. These non-governmental organizations are composed of unpaid volunteers, and their activities are extremely short of funds. But in France, the situation is completely different. It is the government's job to investigate and track unconfirmed aerial phenomena. In 1977, under the French National Center for Space Research, an "unidentified research group on atmospheric and space phenomena" was established, specializing in UFO investigation and related work. The current representative of the group, Jan Jack Belasco, explained this way: "French citizens are more and more interested in UFOs, and they want to know the truth, so they want to have a government investigation agency. On the other hand, the military community, which is struggling to cope with the unsolvable phenomenon, also hopes to have a government investigation agency. "

this group has established close cooperation with the police since it started to work. They investigated 16 UFO sightings in 11 years, and the results confirmed that only more than half of them could be explained as natural phenomena or mistaken recognition, but the remaining 38% could not be explained scientifically.

There are so many unexplained UFO events that the National Space Research Center is shocked. They carefully examined the results of the research team. In order to exchange information with foreign UFO researchers, they also held UFO research conferences in Paris and Toulouse, and one of the topics was UFO material evidence. Nowadays, the physical evidence is always the pits left on the ground, the traces of the Woods being smashed and so on. Dr. Alen Haneck, the representative of the United States and the world authority on UFO studies, introduced the reports they received about eye and skin radiation injuries of eyewitnesses, which aroused the interest of representatives from all countries.

In addition, the French report about abnormal damage to plants found at UFO landing site is also very eye-catching. In an idyllic area, a UFO landed and then rose rapidly and disappeared in the air. Police officials who rushed to the scene immediately found that the plants at the landing site were abnormally damaged, and they also collected some samples to take back. The research team handed over the samples to botanists for analysis, and the results confirmed that the chlorophyll contained in plants was reduced by half. The reason cannot be explained yet.

The delegates hope to strengthen international cooperation and contact and exchange information in time in case of UFO incidents.

although the French "unidentified research group on atmospheric and space phenomena" has been established for many years, no other country has set up a government UFO research institution like France. Why is this? Belasco believes: "UFO does not pose a threat to military and security for ordinary countries, so it is placed outside the scope of government work."

In order to find out whether the mental state of people who claimed to have been abducted by flying saucers is normal, three experts in the United States recently conducted a psychological investigation on people who claimed to have been abducted by flying saucers. The investigation fee is borne by the UFO Research Foundation in Maryland.

UFO researchers Ted Brocha, Bud Hopkins and Afroditte Kramer who live in new york are engaged in this investigation. For several years, they specialized in UFO abduction, among which Kramer was a clinical psychologist. They chose nine people who claimed to have been abducted by flying saucers as the subjects of investigation. These nine people are citizens who have a good reputation and a stable life in the society. They have various occupations, including tennis coaches, university professors, sound technicians and so on.

Three people, including Kramer, think like this. If there are any of these nine people.