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Alvin H. Lawson, 1929 - 2010

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A. H. LAWSON, Hypnotic regression of alleged CE-III cases. Ambiguities on the road to UFOs pp.18-25
Flying Saucer Review
Vol. 22 N. 3 October 1976
Name: Lawson, Alvin H. (1929 - 2010)
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Alvin H. LAWSON, What Can We Learn From Hypnosis of Imaginary "Abductees"? pp.7-9
MUFON UFO JOURNAL
No 120 November 1977
Name: Lawson, Alvin H. (1929 - 2010)
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Alvin H. LAWSON, What Can We Learn From Hypnosis of Imaginary "Abductees"? Part II pp.7-9
MUFON UFO JOURNAL
No 121 December 1977
Name: Lawson, Alvin H. (1929 - 2010)
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Alvin LAWSON, UFOLOGISTS MEET THE SOCIAL SCIENTISTS: HYPNOSIS OF IMAGINARY UFO "ABDUCTEES pp.20-21
International UFO Reporter
Volume 3 number 10/11 Ocober/November 1978
Name: Lawson, Alvin H. (1929 - 2010)
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Alvin H. LAWSON, HYPNOSIS OF IMAGINARY UFO "ABDUCTEES" pp.8-26
The Journal of UFO Studies
Vol. 1 N. 1 1979
Name: Lawson, Alvin H. (1929 - 2010)
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Alvin H. LAWSON, Hypnotic regressions of alleged CE III encounters: ambiguities on the road to UFOs pp.141-151
Author:Nancy DORNBOS (ed.)
Title: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 1976 CUFOS CONFERENCE
Publisher: Center for UFO Studies, Evanston, Ill. Second Printing 1979
Name: Lawson, Alvin H. (1929 - 2010) ; Anderson, Irving ; Ayers, Bradley Earl ; Ballester Olmos, Vicente-Juan (1948) ; Bloecher, Ted (1929 - 2024) ; Bonenfant, Richard ; DeSario, Mario ; Druffel, Ann (1926 - 2020) ; Gates, Tom ; Gross, Loren E. (1938) ; Haines, Richard F. (1937) ; Hall, Richard H. (1930 - 2009) ; Heaton, Harold I. ; Hoville, Wido ; Hynek, Joseph Allen (1910 - 1986) ; Jacobs, David Michael (1942) ; Jamison, Benton ; Klinn, Robert ; Kretsch, Jeffrey ; Maccabee, Bruce (1942 - 2024) ; McCampbell, James M. (1924 - 2008) ; Merritt, Fred ; Michel, Aimé (1919 - 1992) ; Musgrave, John Brent ; Petit, Jean-Pierre (1937) ; Poher, Claude (1935) ; Saunders, David R. (1923 - ?) ; Spaulding, William H. ; Sprinkle, Leo Ronald (1930 - 2021) ; Stanford, Ray ; Viton, Maurice ; Webb, David F. (1944) ; Westrum, Ronald M. (1945) ; Winterberg, F. ; Worley, Don ; Yinger, Richard ; Zeller, Edward J.
Language:English
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A. H. LAWSON, PSYCHOLOGICAL and PERCEPTIVE ASPECTS: Hypnosis of imaginary UFO "abductees" pp.219-258
UFO PHENOMENA
VOL. III N. 1 1979
Name: Lawson, Alvin H. (1929 - 2010)
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Letters: Bailey Case (Mail) pp.16+17
MUFON UFO JOURNAL
No 158 April 1981
Name: McCall, W.C. ; Lawson, Alvin H. (1929 - 2010)
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Alvin H. LAWSON, Enlèvement & traumatisme de la naissance pp.4-
OVNI Présence
N. 23 Septembre 1982
Name: Petrakis, Perry (1959) ; Lawson, Alvin H. (1929 - 2010)
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Letter: Birth Trauma Hypothesis (Mail)
MUFON UFO JOURNAL
No 173 July 1982
Name: Lawson, Alvin H. (1929 - 2010)
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Alvin H. LAWSON, A Testable Hypothesis pp.3-18
MAGONIA
N. 10 1982
Name: Lawson, Alvin H. (1929 - 2010)
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Alvin H. LAWSON, The Abduction Experience pp.13-15
MAGONIA
N. 11 1982
Name: Lawson, Alvin H. (1929 - 2010)
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Alvin H. LAWSON, Rapimenti e traumi da nascita: un'ipotesi testabile sull'origine dei racconti di rapimento pp.25-28 (Magonia n. 10/1982 [parziale])
UFOLOGIA
Anno IV N. 1 (14) Dicembre 1982
Name: Lawson, Alvin H. (1929 - 2010)
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Alvin H. LAWSON, Birth Trauma Imagery in CE-III Narratives: A Testable Hypothesis for the Origin of Fallacious Abduction Reports pp.65-117
Author:Roberto FARABONE (ed.)
Title: INTERNATIONAL UPIAR COLLOQUIUM ON HUMAN SCIENCES AND UFO PHENOMENA - Proceedings - Salzburg, July 26-29, 1982
Serie:Upiar Monograph
Publisher: UPIAR, Milano 1983
Name: Lawson, Alvin H. (1929 - 2010) ; Donderi, Don C. (1937) ; Evans, Hilary (1929 - 2011) ; Farabone, Roberto (1944) ; Izzo, Francesco (1954) ; Keul, Alexander G. (1954) ; Maugé, Claude (1946) ; Mulacz, Wilhelm Peter ; Schönherr, Luis (1927 - 2009) ; Scott, Malcolm ; Toselli, Paolo (1960)
Language:English
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Alvin H. LAWSON, Experimenters' Response: Imaginary Abductions pp.14-15
MUFON UFO JOURNAL
No 181 March 1983
Name: Lawson, Alvin H. (1929 - 2010)
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Alvin H. LAWSON, Ipnosi di rapiti UFO immaginari pp.22-72 (UFO PHENOMENA VOL. III N. 1 /1979 Hypnosis of imaginary UFO "abductees", pp. 219-258)
Documenti UFO Monografie
vol. 3 1984
Name: Lawson, Alvin H. (1929 - 2010) ; Mucci, Marco (1964) ; Innocenti, Stefano (1957)
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Alvin H. LAWSON, Estudio: Hipnósis de "Abductees" Imaginarios pp.10-26 - ¿Secuestro ufológico y Trauma natal? pp.36-40
ufo press
Año VI n. 19 Enero-Marzo 1984
Name: González Manso, Luis R. (1958) ; Lawson, Alvin H. (1929 - 2010) ; Agostinelli, Alejandro (1963)
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Alvin H. LAWSON, A Touchstone for Fallacious Abductions: Birth Trauma Imagery in CE III Narratives pp.71-98
Author:Mimi HYNEK (ed.)
Title: THE SPECTRUM OF UFO RESEARCH - The Proceedings of the Second CUFOS Conference, September 25-27, 1981, Chigaco, Hillinois
Publisher: J.A.Hynek CUFOS, Chicago 1988
Name: Lawson, Alvin H. (1929 - 2010) ; Ballester Olmos, Vicente-Juan (1948) ; Basterfield, Keith ; Guasp, Miguel (1953) ; Holt, Alan C. ; Hopkins, Budd (1931 - 2011) ; Hynek, Joseph Allen (1910 - 1986) ; Jeffers, Joan ; Johnson, Donald A. ; Maccabee, Bruce (1942 - 2024) ; Melton, Gordon J. (1942) ; Pinotti, Roberto (1944) ; Rodeghier, Mark (1953) ; Schechter, Howard R. ; Schuessler, John F.
Language:English
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Alvin H. LAWSON, A Testable Theory for UFO Abduction Reports: The Birth Memories Hypothesis pp.125-142
Author:Dennis STILLINGS (ed.)
Title: CYBER BIOLOGICAL STUDIES OF THE IMAGINAL COMPONENT IN THE UFO CONTACT EXPERIENCE
Publisher: Archaeus Project, St.Paul, Min. 1989
Name: Lawson, Alvin H. (1929 - 2010) ; Evans, Hilary (1929 - 2011) ; Grosso, Michael ; Kottmeyer, Martin S. (1953) ; Nugent, Tony ; Persinger, Michael A. (1945 - 2018) ; Raschke, Carl ; Rojcewicz, Peter M. ; Stillings, Dennis
Language:English
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Vol. 22 N. 3 October 1976
FSR Publications Ltd, Maidstone, Kent

Editor: Charles BOWEN
Name: Lawson, Alvin H. (1929 - 2010)
CONTENTS
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Editorial
Breaking the barrier1-2

Gordon CREIGHTONImportant statement by Spanish Air Force chief 2

Ted BLOECHERThe "Stonehenge" incidents of January 1975
Part I: The Investigations
3-7

Antonio FELICES, alThe case of the Valladolid tractor driver 8-10+11
(From: Stendek Año VI N. 23 Mayo/1976 Caso del_ tractorista de Valladolid, pp. 16-20 )

Luis SCHÖNHERRTime travel, UFOs, and the fourth dimension 11-12+13

Richard F. HAINESCUFOS holds its first technical conference 13-17
Related:
Flying Saucer Review Vol. 22 N. 6 April/1976 - A correction

Book review
John LADEMust it be "forever"?17+26
Review: Ray STANFORD,SOCORRO 'SAUCER' IN A PENTAGON PANTRY - 1976

A. H. LAWSONHypnotic regression of alleged CE-III cases
Ambiguities on the road to UFOs
18-25

Book review
Jonathan CAPLANUFOs - A study of the absurd25
Review: J. Allen HYNEK, Jacques VALLÉE,THE EDGE OF REALITY - 1975

Jenny RANDLESNews round-up from Northern England 26-27

Mail Bag
From Dr. P. Guérin28
From Dr. David Jacobs28
The Knutson photograph28
Fatima Thought-forms29
Ufology in Yugoslavia29
The bottle cooler busimess29

World Round-Up
England
UFO over Redruth
30
New Zeland
Occupants seen near Auckland
30
Canada
Mountie UFO witness silenced
30
Australia
Car pacing at Dargo
30-31
Spain
Motorcyclist chased by UFO
31
Spain
Gigantic UFO a Cambrils
31
Argentina
Olavarria Oyster
31-32

Report from BUFORA 32-iii


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Official Publication of MUFON Mutual UFO Network,Inc
No 120 November 1977
Mutual UFO Network
Name: Lawson, Alvin H. (1929 - 2010)
CONTENTS
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From the Editor2

Jennie ZEIDMANHelicopter Case Update 3

Keith BASTERFIELDThe Birdwood UFO 4-6

NASA Letter Declines UFO "Research Activity" 6

Alvin H. LAWSONWhat Can We Learn From Hypnosis of Imaginary "Abductees"? 7-9

Leonard H. STRINGFIELDThe UFO Status Quo
My Advisory Role for Grenada's UFO Mission at the United Nations
10-11

Bruce S. MACCABEEUFO Related information from the FBI File
Part 2
12-14+19

California Report
Ann DRUFFELAirline Pilots and UFO15-16+17

Lucius FARISHIn Others' Words17

Walt ANDRUSDirector's Message18-19

Ann DRUFFELMagazine Hoax Exposed 20

Astronomy Notes
Mark R. HERBSTRITTThe Sky for January 197820


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Official Publication of MUFON Mutual UFO Network,Inc
No 121 December 1977
Mutual UFO Network
Name: Lawson, Alvin H. (1929 - 2010)
CONTENTS
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Statement of Ownership, Management and Circulation 2

Walt ANDRUSRadar - Visual Case Involving Police Helicopter 3-6

Alvin H. LAWSONWhat Can We Learn From Hypnosis of Imaginary "Abductees"?
Part II
7-9

Astronomy Notes
Mark R. HERBSTRITTThe Sky for february 19789

Bruce S. MACCABEEUFO Related information from the FBI File
Part 3
10-14+16

California Report
Ann DRUFFEL"Thirty Years Later: Thoughts in the Dark"15-16

Lucius FARISHIn Others' Words17

Paul CERNYThe Happy Camp, California Sightings
Part I
18-20

Barry H. DOWNINGUFOs: God's Chariots? By Ted Peters 21-22

New Editorial Staff - For The MUFON UFO Journal 22

Walt ANDRUSDirector's Message23+24

1978 MUFON UFO Symposium 24


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SPECIAL DOUBLE ISSUE
Volume 3 number 10/11 Ocober/November 1978

Editor: Joseph Allen HYNEK
Name: Lawson, Alvin H. (1929 - 2010)
CONTENTS
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Allen J. HYNEKEditorial1

Foreign Forum
Argentina2
Austria2
AUSTRALIAN UFO STATISTICS-19772
MADAGASCAR2
MALAYSIA2
NORWAY2
PORTUGAL2

J. Allen HYNEKUFOLOGISTS & THE UNITED NATIONS
A Novel Moment in the History of UFO Research
3-18

UFOLOGISTS MEET THE SOCIAL SCIENTISTS
Kent NEWMANHOW CAN HYPNOSIS BE USED IN UFO ABDUCTION CASES?19
Leo R. SPRINKLEWHAT ARE THE IMPLICATIONS OF UFO EXPERIENCES?19-20
James HARDERARE THERE PATTERNS IN UFO ABDUCTION CASES?20
Alvin LAWSONHYPNOSIS OF IMAGINARY UFO "ABDUCTEES20-21
William C. McCALLWHAT CAN WE LEARN FROM THE EMOTIONAL REACTIONS OF UFO ABDUCTEES?21
Michael A. PERSINGERWHAT FACTORS CAN ACCOUNT FOR UFO EXPERIENCES?21
SCIENTISTS'SELECTION OF NEW AREAS FOR INVESTIGATION: UFOs OR ETI?21-22

FIRST SUMMARY OF THE WORK OF THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT'S "GEPAN" UFO ORGANIZATION 22

UFO IMPACT: HUMAN BEHAVIOR23

Correspondence
Letter 23
Book:Lynn E. CATOE,UFOS AND RELATED SUBJECTS: AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY - 1969

ERRATUM 24
Related:
International UFO Reporter Volume 3 number 9 September/1978 - THE SOCORRO, NEW MEXICO LANDING ADDITIONAL WITNESSES?


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Vol. 1 N. 1 1979
Name: Lawson, Alvin H. (1929 - 2010)
CONTENTS
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Richard F. HAINESVOICE STRESS ANALYSIS IN UFO WITNESSES 1-7
Abstract: This paper provides evidence why UFO investigators and others should use caution in the use of specialized equipment which claims to analyse the amount of stress present in the human voice. Six technical limitations are documented: (1) poor inter-judge scoring reliability, (2) problems caused by different words used by the witness, (3) scoring problems caused by the quality of the tape recorder used, (4) scoring problems caused by the speed of the recording, (5) difficulties caused by the possibility that vocal responses may be subject to voluntary control, and (6) scoring problems related to the level of stress present and the witness stress response threshold. Such devices do have some merit when used with proper training and with an understanding of their technical limitations;some of these factors are also discussed.

Alvin H. LAWSONHYPNOSIS OF IMAGINARY UFO "ABDUCTEES" 8-26
Abstract: In an attempt to evaluate objectively the claims of UFO "abductees", imaginary abductions were induced hypnotically in a group of volunteers who had no signi ficant knowledge of UFOs. Eight situational questions comprising the major components of a typical abduction account were asked of each subject. Although the researchers expected major dissimilarities, an averaged comparison of data from four imaginary and four "real" abduction narratives showed no substantive differences. Also, extensive patterns echoing well-estab lished details from "real" UFO reports emerged from the "naive" subjects' im aginary sessions. There is as yet no satisfactory explanation for the patterns and other similarities between imaginary and "real" abductions. But more significantly, there are parallels between these patterns and the "image constants" or recur rent descriptions of form, color, and movement reported by subjects in drug- induced hallucination experiments, and in so-called "death narratives", among other mental processes. Thus there is reason to accept at least some parts of the "real" abductees1 stories as accurate reflections of what their sensory mec hanisms have reported. However, despite many similarities, there are crucial differences such as alleged physical effects and multiple witnesses which arguethat UFO abductions are separate and distinct from imaginary and hallucinatoryex periences. With these distinctions in mind, an abduction model is proposed- witnesses actually perceive images from whatever source such as bright and pulsating lights, lattice-textured forms moving randomly in the sky, lighted tunnels, humanoid figures, with data from the imagination, etc. memory, These abduction constants are combined nesses to create a "real" UFO encounter. and existing UFO data known by wit The subjective reality of the intense hallucinatory experience is a physically real event. Subsequently they may re port the "truth" as they have experienced it, although actual occurences remain unclear. el, The complexities of the UFO phenomenon are affirmed by the above mod since still unexplained are many puzzling matters, including the greatest mystery of all, the nature of the stimulus which initiated witness and so triggers the abduction sequence. the imagery in the The writer prefers a dualistic UFO hypothesis. But while there is a continuing absence of unambiguous physical evidence, this study concludes that UFOs are in psychological terms unquestionably real, and further that non-physical UFO research is promising

Paul J. LAVRAKAS, Dennis P. ROSENBAUMASSESSING BELIEF IN EXTRATERRESTRIAL LIFE: THE BEXTL SCALE 27-31
Abstract: With the advent of organized attempts to search for extraterrestrial life (e.g., SETI), it has become important to plumb the depths of the public's belief in its existence. The measurement of such a quantity is facilitated by the use of a scale developed by the authors: the Belief in Extraterrestrial Life (BEXTL) Scale. With the existence of this scale, it will now become easier to quantify and understand the social phenomenon of belief in the extraterrestrial hypothesis.

Joseph S, ACCETTAANGELS HAIR REVISITED 32-34
(Spanish/Catalan translation ufo press Año VI N. 15 Enero/1983 ANALISIS DE UNA MUESTRA DE "HILOS DE VIRGEN", pp. 21-23)
Abstract: Laboratory analysis of a sample of possible "angels hair" from a fall (Oct. 11, 1977) in the San Francisco, CA area is reported. widespread The samples analysed showed none of the volatility of that obtained in classicreports. ysisNonetheless, tentatively identifies the substance as airborne spider web. Anal variety of analyses performed is of importance should a "genuine" angels speciman connected with a UFO make From time to time a phenomeno- a hair its appearance.

Don C. DONDERITHE EFFECT OF CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS ATTITUDES ABOUT UFO EVIDENCE ON SCIENTIFIC ACCEPTANCE OF THE EXTRATERRESTRIAL HYPOTHESIS 35-40
Abstract: Current scientific attitudes toward UFO evidence are reviewed and contrasted with the growing interest in communicating with extraterrestrial intelligence (ETI). Conscious rejection of the extraterrestrial UFO hypothesis is attributed to the rigidity of current paradigms, Bayesian thinking with zero prior probability for the extraterrestrial hypothesis, and a low signal-to-noise ratio in the publicly available data. The interest in ETI, on the other hand, is partially attributed to unconscious acknowledgment of the UFO data and its extraterrestrial implications.

Donald A. JOHNSONA STRUCTURED APPROACH TO THE ANALYSIS OF NON-PHYSICAL UFO EVIDENCE 41-48
Abstract: The lack of indisputable hard evidence of the UFO phenomenon is thought likely to continue and therefore, the author attempts to provide a realistic, orderly approach to the analysis of non-physical UFO data. Four levels of analysis are suggested and discussed: the studies of the witness, the phenomenon, the report, and the myth of UFOlogy. Possible research directions are suggested.

Robert G. NEELEY JNR1897: THE AIRSHIP IN ILLINOIS 49-69
Abstract: The author presents an in-depth analysis of the airship wave of 1897 in Illinois as derived from an exhaustive study of Illinois newspapers. Sightings were discovered to fall into one of three categories: the moving lights, the "description" sightings, and landing/occupant sightings. Each group was examined and encapsulated and possible identifications of some of the sightings are suggested. Several classic cases of the airship from the literature are examined

Bruce MACCABEESCIENTIFIC INVESTIGATION OF UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS: PART I 70-92

James A. HARDERARE THERE PATTERNS IN UFO ABDUCTION CASES ? 93-97
Abstract: The abduction experiences of 104 individual subjects are examined. Male/females statistics multiple participation, case publicity, family relationships, occupational and educational backgrounds are studied with the conclusions found that the abductees tend to be more highly educated and skilled, as well as psychologically stable than perhaps has been thought.

William C. McCALLWHAT WE CAN LEARN FROM THE EMOTIONAL REACTIONS OF UFO ABDUCTEES 98-100

Leo R. SPRINKLEWHAT ARE THE IMPLICATIONS OF UFO EXPERIENCES? 101-109
Abstract: The history of the author's involvement with UFOs is discussed. A research project of the author (the identification and psychological studies of persons who claim to experience psychic impressions of UFO phenomena) is described. The "reality" of and possible interpretations of abduction accounts received under hypnosis is commented upon.


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Title: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 1976 CUFOS CONFERENCE

Editor: Nancy DORNBOS
Publisher: Center for UFO Studies, Evanston, Ill. Second Printing
Year: 1979
Pages: 321 pp.
Name: Lawson, Alvin H. (1929 - 2010); Anderson, Irving; Ayers, Bradley Earl; Ballester Olmos, Vicente-Juan (1948); Bloecher, Ted (1929 - 2024); Bonenfant, Richard; DeSario, Mario; Druffel, Ann (1926 - 2020); Gates, Tom; Gross, Loren E. (1938); Haines, Richard F. (1937); Hall, Richard H. (1930 - 2009); Heaton, Harold I.; Hoville, Wido; Hynek, Joseph Allen (1910 - 1986); Jacobs, David Michael (1942); Jamison, Benton; Klinn, Robert; Kretsch, Jeffrey; Maccabee, Bruce (1942 - 2024); McCampbell, James M. (1924 - 2008); Merritt, Fred; Michel, Aimé (1919 - 1992); Musgrave, John Brent; Petit, Jean-Pierre (1937); Poher, Claude (1935); Saunders, David R. (1923 - ?); Spaulding, William H.; Sprinkle, Leo Ronald (1930 - 2021); Stanford, Ray; Viton, Maurice; Webb, David F. (1944); Westrum, Ronald M. (1945); Winterberg, F.; Worley, Don; Yinger, Richard; Zeller, Edward J.
CONTENTS
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Allen J. HYNEKAcknowledements ii-iii

Irvng ANDERSONThe periodicity of flaps 1-5
Abstract: This paper presents the preliminary results of the examination of the periodicity of flaps through the use of UFOCAT. Mini-flaps have been found that provide additional support for Dr. David Saunders' prediction of a flap in the latter part of 1977. The analysis by longitude allows for the tracking of the UFO phenomenon from the West Coast (USA) in 1947 until it passed into the Atlantic Ocean, causing the East Coast flap of 1973. Further research in this area may result in almost total predictability of when and where a UFO sighting may occur.

ACOSAn overview of the UFO phenomenon in Australia and some notes on investigation into that subject 6-10
Abstract: This paper tells briefly how Australia entered the field of Ufology, and relates the government policy and attitude towards UFOs. An overall view of UFO organizations in Australia is given, and brief sections are devoted to flap areas, patterns in UFO encounters, and close encounters. Results of the first Australian UFO Conference, attended by all the ACOS organizations, are given.

Bradley Earl AYERSThe UFO field investigator - Reporter of researcher 11-14
Abstract: The challenge confronting the serious UFO investigator is unprecedented and unique; our approach to the problem must become more imaginative and comprehensive. The field investigator, after exploring and eliminating all logical explanations for a sighting, must probe the only remaining evidence - the human observer. In the absence of physical evidence, the observer must become the object of the investigation and the focal point of scientific study. The field investigator must become a 'behavior researcher' capable of perceiving and interpreting the human element as well as reporting material facts.

Vicente-Juan BALLESTER OLMOSAre UFO sightings related to population? 15-24
Abstract: The author's catalogue of 200 UFO landings in Spain confirms the existence of the wave phenomenon. To explore its possible dependence on sociological causes, a comparison is made between the main features of mass hysteria and of UFO sightings, revealing several notable differences. Other sociological hypotheses are reviewed negatively, leading to the conclusion that UFO waves are related only to the increase in actual UFO activity. Previous research on UFO cases versus population density is examined, with the conclusion that close encounters tend to manifest themselves in sparsely populated areas, whereas high-altitude phenomena have a random spatial distribution and are positively correlated with population. Statistics derived from Spanish close encounter reports are compatible with this model.

Ted BLOECHERThe Stonehenge incidents, january 1975 25-38
Abstract: In January 1975, a Close Encounter, Type III (UFO with occupants) , occurred in North Bergen, New Jersey, right on Manhattan's doorstep. In the course of investigations, from November 1975 through March 1976, it was possible not only to locate an independent witness to this remarkable event, but to unearth other UFO experiences in the same locality as well. These independent, unpublicized reports appear to be merely the tip of the iceberg; they amply illustrate the UFO "invisibility" problem in microcosm, of manifestations that occur daily on a global scale, and at a rate that we have so far most certainly underestimated.

Richard BONENFANTA preliminary report of UFO coverage in the Knickerbocker News, New Yord, 1965-1969 39-49
Abstract: In order to determine the usefulness of newspaper articles as a source of local UFO sighting reports, the author has surveyed the coverage of such stories in an urban upstate New York newspaper, the KNICKERBOCKER NEWS, for the period 1965 through 1969. A total of 72 such articles was found. Information from these articles is summarized in the text and tables, and presented fully in the appendices

Mario DESARIO, Jeffrey KRETSCHMobile UFO study van 50-61
Abstract: This paper describes the equipment and instrumentation to be used in attempts at field observation of UFOs. The equipment will be placed in a van and transported to sites of possible UFO activity. The van will provide fast reaction capability and on-site investigation. The immediate purpose of this project is to obtain basic information on the phenomenon, specifically: (1) quantitative measures of the energy emitted from the surface of the "object;" (2) spectra of the phenomena; and (3) high quality photographs and movie films. In the event sightings are not made directly, sighting reports can be investigated in cooperation with local investigators. The instruments can also be calibrated through studies of natural phenomena.

Ann DRUFFELSanta Catalina Island recurring "cloud-cigar" 62-74
Abstract: Since 1962 there have been recurring sightings of "cloudcigars" over the Catalina Channel in Southern California. These hovering, "energized" clouds are reported both day and night, and are accompanied by sightings of smaller, disc-like objects miles inland, while the larger objects remain high above the Pacific Ocean between the mainland and Catalina Island, 20 miles off the coast. Available facts indicate the possibility that the small craft "materialize" within the enveloping cloud. Ways are suggested in which CUFOS can obtain cooperation from civilian and military authorities in monitoring these phenomena.

Tom GATESUFOs and public awareness 75-79
Abstract: In almost no other scientific endeavor is the data source so intricately linked with the public as it is in UFO research. Our ability to work effectively in gathering this data is directly connected with the image of UFOs held by the public, collectively and individually. A definite program of public education is needed to increase awareness of where matters stand. The media unfortunately still represent the greatest barrier to better awareness. Definite programs on our part can go a long way toward a better image of UFO research.

Loren GROSSThe UFO wave of 1947 - California: june 25-july 16 80-88
Abstract: This paper discusses UFO reports to be found in small California newspapers during the 1947 wave. An attempt was made to discover any striking patterns that might be discerned from such a survey. A map is provided to illustrate geographical distribution, as is a chart which illustrates the number of reports daily

Richard F. HAINESPsichophysical and biological aspects of viewing very bright objects 89-96
Abstract: This paper discusses briefly the dynamics of visual adaptation, selected characteristics of solar radiation, and various abiotic-opthalmological effects of ultraviolet, visible and infrared radiation sources upon the eye. It deals further with the following perceptual effects of viewing very bright sources: hue shifts; object size changes (irradiation phenomenon); object shape changes; and afterimage formation and decay. Suggestions are included for the UFO field investigator, to help him obtain witness data that could be useful in understanding more accurately the basic nature of the high luminance source.

Richard HALLScreening out UFO "noise" 97
Abstract: This paper briefly presents a proposal that The Center for UFO Studies sponsor a compilation of data on known aerial phenomena and events that tend to generate false UFO reports, to be circulated to UFO groups and publications for use in screening UFO reports.

Harold I. HEATONPreliminary studies of animal reaction to UFOs 98-109
(French translation Les Extraterrestres Series 2 N. 6 Avril/1978 ETUDES PRELIMINAIRES SUR LES REACTIONS DES ANIMAUX EN PRESENCE DES OVNI, pp. 7-8)
Abstract: An attempt is made to extract physical data on UFOs from old data by exploring the interaction of UFOs with the bio-environment. Animal reaction cases have been extracted from 30 of the most objective books on UFOs and from catalogues. Each sighting is subjected to a standard set of questions in the following areas: details of the sighting, object(s), human observer(s), and animal (s) involved. Attention is paid to the simultaneous presence of unexcited animals. Responses are digitized for computer analysis and pattern identification. A control group is formed by cases in which an animal is reported to react to an identified object or to a hoax. The principal obstacle to project success is the lack of response from individual authors concerning additional case details.

Wido HOVILLEUFOs and parapsycology 110-111
(French translation UFO Quebec No 6 /1976 UFOs et parapsychologie, pp. 20)
Abstract: The recent advent of writers who probe the parapsychological and paranormal aspects of the UFO phenomenon has generated concern among many UFO researchers who study the phenomenon in all its aspects. Emphasizing the parapsychological or paranormal aspect as the sole explanation may lead the scientific community and the public to the assumption that the Flying Saucer phenomenon has nothing physical about it. In the long run, there is only one way to solve the problem, and that is the tested method of scientific investigation using physical data.

David JACOBSUFo research, the eth, and other murky problems 112-118
Abstract: Theories that assign a single origin or purpose to UFOs fail to deal adequately with the large number and repetitive nature of the sightings. Similarly, ideas that assign psychic origins to UFOs fail to account for the great majority of UFO sightings, and supply insufficient answers to trace and occupant cases. Rather than speculating in ways that encompass the totality of the UFO phenomenon, it may be more fruitful to come to a more pluralistic conception of the phenomenon, which might, for example, be based on levels of technological development. This pluralistic conception leads us to conclude that the UFO phenomenon is more varied and complex than previously thought, and allows us to encompass the variety, number, and strangeness of reports.

Benton JAMISONSome proposals: modest, immodest, and maybe fundable 119-132
Abstract: The UFO phenomenon is the source of a continuing supply of raw data not easily digestible, hence mostly ignored, by science. The task of separating the psychological components of this phenomenon from its physical ones, to say nothing of understanding the interaction between these components, would provide the social sciences with an opportunity to test out its theories and techniques in, for it, almost virgin territory. This paper presents a detailed rationale for a proposal designed to determine whether or not there exist significant sociological and psychological differences between the class of people who have undergone a non-trivial UFO experience and the class of those who have not.

Robert KLINNPhotomicrography: a way to salvage film images of UFOs 133-140
Abstract: A technology has been adopted which makes it possible to obtain visual clarity, reliable measurements, and qualitative information from some UFO negatives and transparencies. Extremely small images of UFOs on films, previously blown up with photographic enlargers, have been significantly improved in clarity and have yielded increased useful magnification levels through the use of the precision lenses and techniques of a state-of-theart photomicrographic system. Photomicrographic analyses are presented of not-yet-published UFO films, including a series of stills authenticated by multiple witnesses and involving a recent UFO car chase. As many images otherwise not useful may be salvaged, a call is proposed for old original films to be submitted to the Center for UFO Studies, for reprocessing by photomicrography.

Alvin H. LAWSONHypnotic regressions of alleged CE III encounters: ambiguities on the road to UFOs 141-151
Abstract: Hypnotic regression of alleged CE III abductees may be ultimately inconclusive and/or otherwise unsatisfactory as viable data, because of inherent ambiguities in methodology in the investigator's tactics, and in the witness' personality and perceptions.

Bruce S. MACCABEEOn the possibility that McMinnville photos show a distant unidentified object (UO) 152-163
Abstract: The McMinnville photos have been reanalyzed to improve the photometric estimate of distance to the UO. The detailed analysis has included the use of an actual film exposure curve, the results of a laboratory study of veiling glare, and the results of a measurement of the relative brightness of vertical and horizontal white surfaces under environmental illumination. The new photometric analysis shows that the bottom of the UO is too bright for it to have been a nearby white (paper) surface.

James McCAMPBELLUFO interfercence with automobile electrical system, Part 1: headlights 164-182
Abstract: Headlight failures normally occur when a UFO is directly in front of a vehicle at low altitude. This location suggests that the headlamp reflector functions as a miniature dish antenna focussing radiation onto the filament. An upper limit on the wavelength is established from antenna design practice. Further limitations are imposed by spectral characteristics of the lens and by half-wave, resonant transmission. Failures are shown to be caused by depletion of conduction electrons. A mechanism is described by which radiation takes them out of the conduction band. Semiquantitative results are based upon simple experiments with headlamps. The radiation intensity causing failure is estimated from measured human sensation of warmth from microwaves.

Fred MERRITTA preliminary classification of some reports of UFOs based on shape and dimensions of imprint patterns 183-195
Abstract: Since UFO reports with similar imprint patterns often have surprisingly similar content, the 68 available reports containing imprint data were examined, taking each report at face value from the best available source. Five catenas (groups of reports) were isolated intuitively. Report details predominating or recurring within each catena were extracted as lists of characteristics. Each of the 68 cases was scored for degree of fit with each of the five lists. The 37 surviving reports form five discrete catenas, each highly consistent internally in report content, with characteristic imprint pattern ranges

Aimé MICHELThe grisonne paradox 196-197

John Brent MUSGRAVEThe UFO investigator as counselor and healer 198-200
Abstract: UFO field investigators fulfill the important social function of being counselors and healers. Attention should be paid to this when training investigators, and when interviewing UFO percipients. Some UFO percipients may need to work out their experience in much the same way as upset people work out their life problems. In such cases, the investigator becomes a kind of healer. Without prejudging the reality of the phenomenon, there may be a typology of behavior changes and disorders generated by UFO events.

Jean-Pierre PETIT, Clause POHER, Maurice VITONMagnetohydrodynamic (MHD) aerodynes 201-220
Abstract: This paper presents a theoretical model for the sustention and propulsion of hypothetical vehicles, magnetohydrodynamic aerodynes. Such a vehicle, containing a lightweight, high performance generator, would create by its discharge electrical and magnetic fields in the surrounding air. Lorentz forces acting on this ionized air change the pressure distribution and thereby create both thrust and lift. If the magnetic field is small, cylindrical and spherical shapes are practical, as shown in laboratory simulations in liquids. As the magnetic field increases, the Hall Effect becomes important, and a disc shape is required. Values have been computed for a ten-meter aerodyne at atmospheric pressure, indicating the need for a generator delivering an average of between 400 and 4000 MW (compared with Concorde's 200 MW). Attempts are being made to design such a generator. Theoretical study and computations have provided the configurations necessary to overcome plasma instability. Additional experimentation is underway, using a low pressure wind tunnel, to determine if refraction waves created by plasma acceleration could damp or annihilate the frontal shock wave.

Claude POHERIdeas for an experimental approach 221-230
Abstract: This paper proposes an experimental approach to spectral analysis of UFOs, using the public and a simple, inexpensive diffraction grating in conjunction with any ordinary camera. Sophisticated analysis of the results can yield important information'.

David R. SAUNDERSA spatio-temporal invariant for major UFO waves 231-233
Abstract: Major UFO waves are readily classified by the skewness of their time-distributions. Type C waves are positively skewed, and their dates of onset are easily related to terrestrial stimuli. Type A waves are negatively skewed, and less easily explained. However, a graph of calendar date versus longitude for Type A waves shows a near perfect correlation. Since the optimum date-place combinations move east with the advancing calendar, completing one circumference per year, this suggests the importance of absolute sidereal time as an independent variable influencing reported UFO activity. Other results supporting this hypothesis, and possible refinements therein, are discussed.

William SPAULDINGThe digital computer and the UFO 234-250
Abstract: UFO research has taken a new approach to the interpretation of photographic evidence of UFOs. Most pictorial evidence of UFOs lacks the proper sensitivity and resolution necessary to discern even the simplest of data points. However, the digital computer can help, and is presently being utilized for laboratory research on UFO photographs. Highly sophisticated computer programs, with improved hardware, should soon be available to aid in the evaluation of all UFO photographs.

Leo R. SPRINKLEHypnotic and psychic aspects of UFOs research 251-258
Abstract: This paper describes a possible approach to the study of UFO reports: a tentative set of hypotheses which may explain the "physical," "biological," "psycho-social," and "spiritual" implications of UFO phenomena. Hypnotic techniques are encouraged as a method for assisting UFO witnesses to recall more about their UFO experiences. Psychical research methods are encouraged for the study of paraphysical and para-psychological phenomena which are associated with UFO experiences. Finally, the emerging pattern of UFO reports is compared with the views of persons who claim to have obtained prophetic vision of events which are to occur during the next 25 years.

Ray STANFORDThe operation Argus concept: a new look at UFO. Event sharing and data sharing 259-265
Abstract: Project Starlight International's Operation ARGUS (Automated Ringup on Geo-located UFO Sightings) is a computer-centered, triple triangulation UFO tracking system at PSI's 400 acre research site. It provides: (1) video and typed readouts of actual and horizontal distances to a UFO, plus altitude, radius of visibility, crosssectional size of the object and the error factor involved in each computation; (2) video displays of object path superimposed on landing location studies; (3) multi-line simultaneous automated telephone call-up alert of all ARGUS volunteers within computed area of UFO visibility; (4) automated printout of names and phone numbers of all volunteers successfully reached; (5) automated general radio alert via selected amateur radio channels with request for reportback; and (6) simultaneous radar tracking and recording. Also described is a high speed method of data sharing with researchers world-wide.

David WEBBAnalysis of humanoid/abduction reports 266-276
Abstract: Witness-abduction cases may represent the core of the UFO phenomenon. A listing of such cases is presented, a large number of which have been uncovered only within the last two years. This bold form of behavior seems to be on the increase; over half the known abduction cases have occurred since 1970. Recurring aspects include details of the physical characteristics of the humanoids, the use of on-board physical examinations, induced amnesia and post-encounter increases in the witness ■* knowledge or psi ability. The large number of these cases and their internal consistency demand that we critically analyze them, especially the witnesses involved, try to uncover "hidden" cases, and take a fresh look at the "contactee" problem. Some methods of analysis are suggested.

Ron WESTRUMThe effects of UFOs on society 277-281
Abstract: Human contacts with UFOs have already produced widespread belief in UFOs, and it is suggested that this belief will soon extend to the more "far-out" aspects of the UFO phenomenon. It is possible that this credence, in a force seemingly capricious yet powerful, may undermine the intellectual and emotional foundations of our society.

F. WINTERBERGThe physical possibility o macroscopic bodies approaching zero rest mass and the UFO problem 282-286
Abstract: UFO reports by highly reliable witnesses have in common the observation of solid physical objects (1) with no or almost no inertial mass; (2) surrounded by an intense corona-like discharge; (3) possessing strong magnetic fields; (4) producing no sonic boom at the high velocities reported. These characteristics suggest a state of matter approaching zero rest mass. If such a state exists, then interstellar distances could be traversed in an arbitrarily small proper time and with a vanishingly small amount of energy. Matter incorporating magnetic monopoles may lead to just such a material state. Since monopole fields fall off much more slowly than dipole fields, this could explain the magnetic effects reportedly associated with UFOs. The induced electric field resulting from the rapid motion of the monopole field could explain the glow observed around the UFOs as a corona discharge. The strong magnetic field could also explain the absence of any sonic boom.

Don WORLEYThe UFO-related anthropoids: an important new 287-294
Abstract: In the last seven years there has been a dramatic increase in a specific type of ground-level manifestation associated with UFOs, a bizarre anthropoid-like form which I call simply "the creature." Of major importance to field investigators is the time factor existing in the creature phenomenon. Not in lost-time abductions, ESPoriented contacts, or in any other fashion do we find the source behind UFOs so exposed. For the first time they have begun to approach more closely, sometimes remain in an area for an extended period, or return later.

Richard YINGERExosociology: sociology and UFOs 295-300
Abstract: Sociology provides useful concepts and perspectives for analyzing UFO phenomena. No matter what UFOs "really" are, from a sociological perspective, something is happening that has the characteristics of a social fact. Exosociology is being developed as an investigation of the concept of extraterrestrial life as a social concept and the impact of that concept on Earth life. This paper develops an open systems theoretical framework for analyzing UFO phenomena and traces the development of exosociology as a field of study. The shabby treatment science has given to the study of UFO phenomena is viewed as worthy of study.

Edward ZELLERThe use of thermoluminescence for the evalution of UFO landing site effect 301-308
Abstract: Thermoluminescence - the ability of many common minerals to emit visible light when heated through a temperature range of about 70° to about 400° C - provides a potential means of obtaining genuine hard data on the true nature of UFOs. This paper discusses the techniques used in thermoluminescence analysis of soils and rocks, and the procedures to be observed in the proper collecttion and storage of soil and rock samples from UFO landing sites.

Appendix I
The authors309

Appendix II
Suggestions to the Center for UFO Sudies317-318

Appendix III
The Mckay questionaire319-321


Image not available UFO PHENOMENA
an international annual review devoted to the scientific study of ufo phenomena
VOL. III N. 1 1979
Editecs, Bologna

Editor: Roberto FARABONE
Name: Lawson, Alvin H. (1929 - 2010)
CONTENTS
AuthorTitlePag

Editorial
R. FARABONE, F. IZZO, R. CABASSIWhy Still "UFO PHENOMENA"?3-7

Scope and purpose 8

Instructions to Authors 8-12

Acknowledgments 12

PHYSICAL ASPECTS
E. J. BETINISOn the chance of witnessing celestial or aerial events15-29
Abstract: The chances of witnessing celestial or anomalous aerial events are derived by considering the volume of sky available primarily to the ground-based observer as compared to the entire earth's atmosphere at a height of about 15 kilometers. The fraction of time spent observing compared to a twenty-four hour day and the fraction of volume of sky for observing are also used. Aircraft pilots' and astronomers' chances are also given some consideration. The results are applied to the chances of detecting meteors and anomalous aerial events. The conclusions indicate that the chance of witnessing an anomalous event (UFO) is extremely low and even improbable. Thus reconciliation with data gathered on reports of witnessing anomalous events implies a 'selectivity'. A further conclusion is that the presence of a few fast-moving anomalies could account for the global scale of the reports of anomalous aerial phenomena.
B. S. MACCABEEAnomalous lights in the daylight sky31-67
Abstract: Several observers, one of them a technical competent employee of a military installation, observed two very bright lights or luminous objects in a clear, midday, summer sky. The lights were observed to remain apparently stationary and also to approach and recede along different trajectories. The duration of the observation was from three to five minutes. Despite an intensive investigation the objects remain unidentified.

GATHERING and PROCESSING of DATA
W. SMITH, M. GUASP, V. J. BALLESTER OLMOSDramatic chase in Spain71-85
Abstract: A family of five, returning home at night by back roads, was followed by a bright light which chased the car persistently over a distance of about 40 Km for almost an hour. When approaching the village of Cheste (near Valencia, Spain), the UFO, now at a close range, moved ahead and above the car, and extended legs. The incident was terminated by the approach of another vehicle, moving in the opposite direction on that usually deserted road. One of the witnesses (age 15) was violently ill during the incident, and indisposed for some time afterwards. Damage to the battery of the automobile was attributed to the incident, and it had to be replaced the following day.
E. BERGER1954/55 The Austrian share87-134
Abstract: Masses of UFO experiences were reported at Austria in the 1954/55 period 99 of which remained unidentified. The hard core of the material consists of gendarmerie/police reports collected by the Austrian government and for the first time released to Ernst Berger in 1973. 28 case histories, the most interesting part of the material, are presented in detail. By means of a full statistical analysis methodically equal to an earlier study by BERGER on 1972-77 Austrian report patterns structures of the 1954/55 flap are extracted and compared with the results of VALLEE, BERGER and others.

The "CE III"
J. SCORNAUXConsiderations on the nature of humanoids137-176
Abstract: The nature of humanoids reported by UFO witnesses remains very controversial. Their existence as intelligent extraterrestrial beings meets very much reticence in the human mind. There is undoubtedly a mental block caused by fear, but there are also more elaborated arguments. The resemblance between Man and humanoids is one of these, but the question of the resemblance that other intelligent beings may bear to us remains very open among biologists. I do not think that human imagination can explain the appearance of humanoids. In general, they resemble us both too much and too little. An argument against the material nature of the humanoids is that their morphology is far too variable from one case to another. Several answers are possible to this objection. But a more fundamental argument is based on the instant or on the spot disappearance of humanoids. I now give a few examples of this behaviour, both in the open air and in confined spaces. I propose the explanation that these cases are projections of images, created either by electromagnetic waves or by some parapsychological means. But all the ufonauts are not images, or perhaps only a part of the observation corresponds to a projection because some of them left footprints or had physical contact with the witnesses. I also give a few examples of such cases. I present several hypotheses about the nature of material humanoids and discuss the concept of a 'reassuring' hypothesis. I propose foe discussion the hypothesis that part of the humanoids might be human beings captured by the beings governing the UFO phenomenon.

PSYCHOLOGICAL and PERCEPTIVE ASPECTS
L. R. SPRINKLEUsing pendulum technique in the investigation of UFO experiences179-218
Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to provide information about technique for uncovering subconscious memories, so that UFO field investigators may consider the technique for possible use in investigations. The pendulum technique is described, with references to historical development and contemporary usage. Procedures are presented for learning the use of the pendulum technique, including illustrations to guide the interested reader. A brief review is presented of the literature on field investigation of UFO experiences; an emphasis is given to the reports of Close Encounters of the Third Kind (CE III), including reports of 'loss of time', or partial amnesia, which may occur during UFO sightings. Results of using the pendulum technique are described in two UFO cases: one case obtained preliminary information about a possible 'loss of time' experience during a UFO sighting; the second case obtained preliminary information about a possible 'hidden' UFO experience. The UFO cases are presented as examples for preliminary investigation of the CE III experiences. When field investigators obtain information about CE III cases, they are encouraged to consider possible arrangements for a consultant in hypnosis to assist UFO witnesses in exploring and evaluating their subconscious memories of their UFO experiences.
A. H. LAWSONHypnosis of imaginary UFO "abductees"219-258
(Italian translation Documenti UFO Monografie vol. 3 /1984 Ipnosi di rapiti UFO immaginari, pp. 22-72)
Abstract: In an attempt to evaluate objectively the claims of UFO 'abductees', imaginary abductions were induced hypnotically in a group of volunteers who had non significant knowledge of UFOs. Eight situational questions comprising the major components of a typical abduction account were asked of each subject. Although the researchers expected major dissimilarities, an averaged comparison of data from four imaginary and four 'real' abduction narratives showed no substantive differences. Also, extensive patterns echoing well-established details from 'real' UFO reports emerged from the 'naive' subjects' imaginary sessions. There is as yet no satisfactory explanation for the patterns and other similarities between imaginary and 'real' abductions. But, more significantly, there are parallels between these patterns and the 'image constants' or recurrent descriptions of forms, color, and movement reported by subjects in drug-induced hallucination experiments, and in so-called 'death' narratives, among other mental processes. Thus there is reason to accept at least some parts of 'real' abductees' stories as accurate reflections of what their sensory mechanisms have reported. However, despite the many similarities, there are crucial differences - such as alleged physical effects and multiple witnesses - which argue that UFO abductions are separate and distinct from imaginary and hallucinatory experiences. With these distinctions in mind, an abduction model is proposed: Witnesses really perceive images - from whatever source - such as bright and pulsating lights, lattice-textured forms moving randomly in the sky, lighted tunnels, humanoid figures, etc. These abduction constants are combined with data from the imagination, memory, and existing UFO data known by witnesses to create a 'real' UFO encounter. The subjective reality of the intense hallucinatory structure convinces the witnesses that the entire experience is a physically real event. Subsequently they may report the 'truth' as they have experienced it, although actual occurrences remain unclear. The complexities of the UFO phenomenon are affirmed by the above model since still unexplained are many puzzling matters, including the greatest mystery of all, the nature of the stimulus which initiates the imagery in the witness and so triggers the abduction sequence. The writer prefers a dualistic UFO hypothesis. But while there is a continuing absence of unambiguous physical evidence, this study concludes that UFOs are - in psychological terms - unquestionably real, and further, that non-physical UFO research is promising.
R. F. HAINESUFO drawings by witnesses and non witnesses: is there somethings in common (part II)259-271
Abstract: Previously, the author found that no readily discernable differences could be found between drawings of 'what a UFO looks like' by people who claims to have seen one from others who claim never to have seen one (Haines, 1977). Since this finding may have resulted simply from the relatively small sample size (136 valid drawings) further tests were administered. The mean results of 458 more valid drawings are presented here. The results may be summarized by pointing out that the 'Have' seen group drew (1) a higher percentage of valid i.e., not ludicrous drawings, (2) a higher percentage of UFO shapes at some angle relative to the edge of the (drawing) card, (3) a higher percentage of two or more shapes on the card, (4) a lower percentage of shapes in side or isometric view, and (5) a lower percentage of symmetrical drawings. Neither the mean width-to-height ratio of the UFO outline shape or its dome (if drawn) differed between the two participant groups. Also, the other major UFO outline and dome measurements were not drawn differently by either group. Finally, and perhaps more significantly, the 'Have' seen group drew a smaller number of miscellaneous details such as apertures (Windows?), markings, wavy lines around the shape, etc. These findings are compared to those obtained in the previous study and discussed in terms of the perceptual impact the UFO encounter appears to have on one's willingness and/or ability to reproduce a UFO shape.
C. RIFATA theoretical framework for the problem of non-contact between and advanced extra-terrestrial civilization and mankind: symbolic sequential communication versus non-symbolic non-sequential communication273-288
Abstract: A general set of ideas is proposed to suggest that advanced extraterrestrial intelligence (ETI) might, probably, never be interested in communicating with such a primitive species as ours. According to the author, symbolic sequential language is the most primitive kind of language intelligent beings may use. Advanced intelligences may better communicate via a non-symbolic non-sequential language, which is able to convey much more bits of information per unit of time at a low cost of distortion, thus nearly eliminating the problem of cloudy symbolic concepts which is so huge a factor of noise in human communication. What is most interesting is that we may well be in presence of a terrestrial species having evolved a more advanced mode of communication: the dolphin!

EPISTEMOLOGY of the RESEARCH
I. GRATTAN-GUINNESSAre UFO psychic phenomena?291-304
Abstract: Students of UFO phenomena nowadays mostly regard their work as a branch of psychical research. In this paper I explore the possibilities of connections and similarities between UFO and psychic phenomena.

IN UFO AREA
M. PITTELLAA statistical survey among Italian astronomical observatory307-314
Abstract: This statistical survey was performed between the years 1977 and 1978, among the most important 14 astronomical and astrophysical observatories in Italy. It had the purpose to probe the opinion of a major slice of the Italian scientific community about the UFO subject and to know whether the staff of some observatories had directly sighted some UFO phenomena. This informative test did not supply us with new and unexpected information. However it is a clear document emphasizing the mediocre standard of information and sensibility of the scientific environment upon the UFO question. Such an investigation, if addressed to other scientific circles too and regularly repeated, could be a suitable way to assess time to time possible developments of the scientific opinion about the UFO subject.
R. FARABONE, F. IZZO, R. CABASSIOfficial data request in Italy315-319

David M. JACOBSState of Art 325

Symposia and Meetings
Richard F. HAINES1978 BUFORA Conference325-328
Vicente-Juan BALLESTER OLMOSRecent developments in Spanish ufology328-331

Read in Literature
Francesco IZZOSocial Intelligence About Anomalies332-333
Roberto FARABONELogique et Recherche Ufologique334-336
Related:
Lumières dans la nuit Année 21 N. 180 Décembre/1978 - Logique et recherche ufologique [Viéroudy, Pierre]

Book Reviews
Ron WESTRUMCes OVNIs Qui Annoncent le Surhomme336-338
Book:Pierre VIÉROUDY,CES OVNI QUI ANNONCENT LE SURHOMME - 1977

In Short
Francesco IZZOAbout OVNIs: El Fenomeno Aterrizaje339
Book:Vicente-Juan BALLESTER OLMOS,OVNIS: EL FENÓMENO ATERRIZAJE - 1978

Books and Journals Received 340

Letters to the Editors
A Researcher Write341-342
Ball lightning342
Richard F. HAINESAbout UFO Drawings342-344
On Hypotheses344-345


Image not available MUFON UFO JOURNAL
Official Publication of MUFON Mutual UFO Network,Inc
No 158 April 1981
Mutual UFO Network
Name: McCall, W.C.; Lawson, Alvin H. (1929 - 2010)
CONTENTS
AuthorTitlePag

From the Editor2

Radiation Injuries from UFO 3

UFO Reports from China 4

Correction 4
Related:
MUFON UFO JOURNAL 155 January/1981 - Book Review

Walt ANDRUSMajor Keyhoe Joins MUFON Board 4

Donald ROBERTSThe Anderson Event 5-6+7

Hilary EVANSAbducted by an Archetype 7-9+10
(From: FORTEAN TIMES N. 33 Autumn/1980 Abducted by an Archetype, pp. 6-9 )

Virgil StaffUFO Crash/Retrievals: A Critique of Greenwell's Critique 10+11+12
Related:
MUFON UFO JOURNAL 153 November/1980 - UFO Crash/Retrievals: A Critique [Greenwell, Richard J.]

Mark MORAVECPsychological Reactions to UFO Events 12-14

Early 1981 UFO Sightings 14+19

California Report
John DEHERRERACarl Sagan, Cosmos, & UFOs15-16

Letters
Bailey Case16+17

Zetetic Scholar: a Review 17

Lucius FARISHIn Others' Words19

Walt ANDRUSDirector's Message20+18


Image not available OVNI Présence
Bulletin AESV
N. 23 Septembre 1982
AESV

Editor: Yves BOSSON
Name: Petrakis, Perry (1959); Lawson, Alvin H. (1929 - 2010)
CONTENTS
AuthorTitlePag

En bref...
Avis important3
Rencontres ufologiques en Suisse3

Alvin H. LAWSONEnlèvement & traumatisme de la naissance 4-
(Translated by Perry PETRAKIS)

Jean-pierre TROADECTout ce qui vous avez toujours voulu savoir sur Eugenio Siragusa sans jamais oser le demander 8-14

Grande première! 15

Le petit martien dechainé
Bessiere n'est pas Bessiere!
15

Hilary EVANSLa vue depuis le Gaisberg
notes sur le colloque de Salzbourg 1982 consacré aux SCIENCES HUMAINES ET AU PHÉNOMÈNE OVNI
16-17+22
(From: Common Ground No 06 /1982 The View From the Gaisberg, pp. 2-3 Translated by Perry PETRAKIS)

Jean BASTIDEAux limites de la réalité 18-22

Jacques BERGIEROVNI & SF
A propos d'une coïncidence...
23


Image not available MUFON UFO JOURNAL
Official Publication of MUFON Mutual UFO Network,Inc
No 173 July 1982
Mutual UFO Network
Name: Lawson, Alvin H. (1929 - 2010)
CONTENTS
AuthorTitlePag

From the Editor2

Kal K. KORFF, William L. MOORE"Contact from the Pleiades" in Fact and Fiction 3-8

MUFON-North Carolina UFO Conference 8+9-10

Richard D. SEIFRIEDMultiple Witness Sighting of Structured UFO 11-12

Stan GORDONUFO-Bigfoot Update 13-14+15

Robert WANDERERCritic's Corner15+16
Related:
UFOLOGIA No 36 Octobre-Novembre-Decembre/1983 - Objets volants non identifiés & hypnose [G. E.S. A.G.]

Letter
Birth Trauma Hypothesis
Related:
MUFON UFO JOURNAL 170 April/1982 - Birth Trauma and "Abductions" [Wanderer, Robert]
More BT Hypothesis
Related:
MUFON UFO JOURNAL 172 June/1982 - Lawson Hypothesis

Brian PARKSE.T. the Extra-Terrestrial: A Review 17

Stamp Program 17

Editorial Notes 17

New Pubblications 18

UFO Data Mart 18

Lucius FARISHIn Others' Words19

Walt ANDRUSDirector's Message20+18


Image not available MAGONIA

N. 10 1982

Editor: John RIMMER
Name: Lawson, Alvin H. (1929 - 2010)
CONTENTS
AuthorTitlePag

Editorial2

Alvin H. LAWSONA Testable Hypothesis 3-18
Related:
UFOLOGIA Anno IV N. 1 (14) Dicembre/1982 - Rapimenti e traumi da nascita: un'ipotesi testabile sull'origine dei racconti di rapimento [LAWSON, Alvin H.]

Notes & Quotes
Seminar on:
The UFO Investigator and the Witness
18
New Library Formed18

Books
Hilary EVANSJean BASTIDE, LA MÉMOIRE DES OVNI , Jean-François BOËDEC, FANTASTIQUES RENCONTRES AU BOUT DU MONDE 19-20
Review: Jean BASTIDE,LA MÉMOIRE DES OVNI - 1978, Jean-François BOËDEC,FANTASTIQUES RENCONTRES AU BOUT DU MONDE - 1982


Image not available MAGONIA

N. 11 1982

Editor: John RIMMER
Name: Lawson, Alvin H. (1929 - 2010)
CONTENTS
AuthorTitlePag

Editorial2

Peter ROGERSONGhost Writers 3-5+10

A Second Look
Ian CRESSWELLObjections to the "B.T." Hypothesis 6-10

Letters
Letter Kevin McCLURE10
Letter Christopher D. ALLAN11
Letter Alan. GARDINER11-12
Letter Donald A. JOHNSON12

Alvin H. LAWSONThe Abduction Experience 13-15

Magonia Christmas & New Year Quiz 15

Books
PRSeymour Mauskopf & Michael Mcvaugh R., The Elusive Science: Origins of Experimental Psychal Research16
PRHansen Eysenck & Carl Sargent, Explaining the Unexplained: Mysteries of the Paranornal16
PRHilary EVANS, INTRUSIONS, SOCIETY AND THE PARANORMAL 16-17
Review: Hilary EVANS,INTRUSIONS, SOCIETY AND THE PARANORMAL - 1982
PRGurney, Myers and Podmore, Phantasms of the Living17
PRJohn Hasted, The Metal Benders17
RSJanet and Colin Bord, Earth Rites - Bob Pegg, Rites and Riots17-18
JRTom LIND, THE CATALOGUE OF UFO PERIODICALS 18-19
Review: Tom LIND,THE CATALOGUE OF UFO PERIODICALS - 1982
JHPaul DEVEREUX, EARTH LIGHTS 19
Review: Paul DEVEREUX,EARTH LIGHTS - 1982
JHJohn Randall, Psychokinesis: A Study of Paranormal19-20


Image not available UFOLOGIA
Aperiodico di critica e d'informazione ufologica
Anno IV N. 1 (14) Dicembre 1982
Supplemento a CLYPEUS n. 78

Editor: Gian Paolo GRASSINO, Edoardo RUSSO
Name: Lawson, Alvin H. (1929 - 2010)
CONTENTS
AuthorTitlePag

Editoriale1-2

Wiliam H. SPAULDING, Fred ADRIANAnalisi computerizzata delle foto: le applicazioni ufologiche 3-10
(From: GSW News Bulletin August/1982 Usage of Computer Photographic Evaluation Techniques as Applied, By GSW, to Purposed UFO Photographs, pp. 3-12 )

Controluce
Eugenio Siragusa: punto e basta?11-12
g.p.g. , e.r.Sufismi12-14

Anders LILJEGRENGli aerei "fantasma" degli anni '30 15-18
(From: AFU Newsletter 24 /1982 Mysterious airships and aeroplanes, pp. 5-6 )

Osservatorio
Affare Stringfield: l'epilogo19-22
Salisburgo 198223-24

Alvin H. LAWSONRapimenti e traumi da nascita: un'ipotesi testabile sull'origine dei racconti di rapimento 25-28
(From: Magonia n. 10/1982 [parziale] )
(Spanish/Catalan translation ufo press Año VI n. 19 Enero-Marzo/1984 ¿Secuestro ufológico y Trauma natal?, pp. 36-40)
Related:
MAGONIA N. 10 /1982 - A Testable Hypothesis [Lawson, Alvin H.]

Recensioni
Roberto FARABONE"UFO: la realtà nascosta"29-30
Review: Luciano BOCCONE,UFO LA REALTÀ NASCOSTA - 1980
James E. OBERG"Accadde a Rowsell"32-34+iv cop.
Review: Charles BERLITZ, William L. MOORE,ACCADDE A ROSWELL - 1981

Paolo GASTALDIGli altri dicono35-38
Book/Magazine:Notiziario UFO - Anno XVI n. 99 /1981, Gli Arcani - Vol. X N. 12 /1981


Image not availableAuthor: Roberto FARABONE (ed.)
Title: INTERNATIONAL UPIAR COLLOQUIUM ON HUMAN SCIENCES AND UFO PHENOMENA - Proceedings - Salzburg, July 26-29, 1982
Publisher: UPIAR, Milano
Serie: Upiar Monograph
Year: 1983
Pages: 173
Name: Lawson, Alvin H. (1929 - 2010); Donderi, Don C. (1937); Evans, Hilary (1929 - 2011); Farabone, Roberto (1944); Izzo, Francesco (1954); Keul, Alexander G. (1954); Maugé, Claude (1946); Mulacz, Wilhelm Peter; Schönherr, Luis (1927 - 2009); Scott, Malcolm; Toselli, Paolo (1960)
CONTENTS
AuthorTitlePag

Roberto FARABONEMonograph Presentation 1-2

Francesco IZZOThe Scandal is 0,7% 5-8

Roberto FARABONECarateristique du colloque [French] 9-11

Alexander G. KEULWhat Could Be This? 15-20
Abstract: Probing the independent variable in UFO reports by projective personality tests and anamnesis. A short review of diagnostic methods able to uncover unconscious material of the UFO witness. The RORSCHACH inkblot technique - its possibilities and its limitations.

Paolo TOSELLIExamining the IFO Cases: the Human Factor 21-50
(French translation OVNI VERS UNE ANTHROPOLOGIE D'UN MYTHE CONTEMPORAIN Dimensions Humaines /1993 L'examen des cas d'objects volants identifiés (OVI): le facteur humain)
Abstract: In past years, all of the well known 'ufologists' realized that misperceptions or misinterpretations of aircrafts, weather balloons, meteors, twinkling stars and other man-made or natural events account for many initial UFO reports. Nevertheless, this acceptance of the IFO phenomenon - viz. the identified cases - doesn't exceed the simple remark of its existence. In fact, according to these persons, the reports that remain when these 'false sightings' have been eliminated an altogether different character. But some recent work has largely pointed out that the IFO and UFO event contain very similar (or the same?) 'patterns'. The fear and the emotions produced by both IFO and UFO events have tones of the same intensity, without any practical differentiation. The purpose of this paper is to provide information about the numerous problems associated with the physical, physiological, psychological and social processes involved in most IFO (and UFO) cases, and to suggest a probable interpretation of the conscious and subconscious events that lead the witness to read the same specific 'UFO model' into a IFO sighting. We have, moreover, tried to distinguish various kinds of IFO reports, by proposing three different 'transposition levels' that could replace the inadequate, though still used, generalization of 'misinterpretation' or 'misperception'. Without having to introduce the assumption of an 'altered state of consciousness' or other 'pathological' processes in the witness, we think that the IFO 'experience' is - even considering its repetitive and collective nature - a very common self developed, human process, principally generated by some basic psychological, psychophysical and social events with the co-operation of the folklore and the myth surrounding the whole UFO subject.

Don C. DONDERISignal Detection Theory As a Method for the Retrospective Evaluation of UFO Witnesses 53-63
Abstract: A sound general principle in psychology is that a psychological test should simulate closely the behavior it is intended to predict. We are trying to predict retrospectively the reliability of UFO witnesses. The witness reports are accounts of visual experiences. The problem is to decide whether these reports closely approximate real physical events, or whether they were generated independently of real physical events. The closest experimental model of the real situation is the signal detection experiment. Signal detection theory is a general formulation of the relationship between stimulus and the response which permits an observer's responses: hits, misses, false positives, and discriminability and response bias. Stimulus discriminability is a measure of the ease with which the stimulus can be detected. It reflects individual differences in sensitivity, as well as the physical detectability of the stimulus. Our interest is in the measure of response bias, defined as a tendency to respond positively in the absence of the stimulus. We wish to discount the reports of the observers who are susceptible to response bias, and credit more strongly the reports of observers who show relatively little response bias. A retrospective signal detection theory test which measures a witness' response bias under the pretext of studying the characteristics of the reported sighting, will be presented. The test requires minimum of apparatus and can be carried out quickly as a part of a witness interview.

Alvin H. LAWSONBirth Trauma Imagery in CE-III Narratives: A Testable Hypothesis for the Origin of Fallacious Abduction Reports 65-117
Abstract: The imagery and events in UFO abduction reports resemble those in several psychological processes, but they are especially similar to revivified birth trauma (BT) narratives. The incipience, universality, and idiosyncratic quality of BT events suggest a likely psychological (non-exotic) source for alleged abduction experiences. These qualities also help explain the many parallels and the minor differences in CE-III reports from witnesses in diverses as well as comparable cultures. The paper presents extensive abduction/BT parallels, taken from abductees' and revivification subjects' narratives. A prominent abduction case (Betty Andreasson's) is analyzed for BT imagery and events, and the study finds pervasive evidence for concluding that the Andreasson experience was essentially a BT revivification. The main points of the paper are: 1) BT data relate to a witness's perinatal history and psychology rather than to UFO events, and so their presence invalidates any CE-III narrative in part or whole; 2) BT elements therefore provide a criterion which can help determine false abduction reports from any that may reflect actual events; and 3) the BT hypothesis is testable through such means of researching abductees' birth histories as familiar interviews, scrutiny of narratives, and hypnotic regression. Multiple witness abductions cannot yet be dismissed, but probably relate to multiple hallucinations, while physical effects CE-IIIs remain ambiguous. Ufologists are urged to approach abduction cases not as exotic events but as genuine psychological phenomena, in order to make fundable CE-III studies more feasible.

Alexander G. KEULInside the Window 121-124
Abstract: A framework for the eighties. Instead of 'looking out of the window together with the (unknown) witness' several disciplines of the social and medical sciences are invited to study the psychosocial roots of the UFO report generation and reception. Focusing on the 'human factor' leads to interdisciplinary contacts with religion, the arts, mythology, psychoanalysis, mass media research, politology, parapsychology, psychopathology and neurology.

Hilary EVANSAbducted by an Archetype 127-139
Abstract: Accounts of alleged abductions by UFOs are generally unsubstantiated by objective evidence, unconfirmed by supporting witnesses and based on purely subjective testimony. It is therefore logical to start by supposing them to be mental rather than physical experiences, and indeed cases exist where this is known to be the case. One feature alone speaks in favour of the physical reality of such accounts - their consistency one with another, which obtains not only in broad outline, but in specific detail. Can this consistency be taken as evidence for the veridical nature of the experience, or are there explanations in psychological and sociocultural terms? Some findings are relevant: (1) The De Herrera/Lawson experiments show that similar accounts can be obtained from subjects who not only do not claim UFO abduction experiences, but deny interest in or detailed knowledge of the UFO phenomenon: these fictitious encounters mimic the 'true' accounts in remarkable detail. (2) Meheust's study of parallels between abduction experiences and science fiction indicates the prevalence of such accounts pre-dating the current UFO era, thus lending support to a cultural, almost folk-lore explanation. (3) Monnerie and Hendry, independently, have demonstrated the ability of sincere witnesses to fabricate 'alien' sightings from what are known to be natural or made-man stimuli. Taken together, these findings suggest that percipients are able to draw some common source of UFO-imagery, an image-bank perhaps to be compared with Jung's archetypes, from whose material they fabricate imagined experiences, motivated by private or social forces. The mental process may be that noted in divided- personality cases by Prince and others. A model is therefore proposed which supposes that the percipient, having lapsed or been induced into an altered state of consciousness, has fed into his conscious mind the illusion of undergoing a UFO experience, fabricated by his own unconscious from a combination of subjectively derived and archetypal material. While such a model does not rule out the possibility of some abduction cases being genuine, it offers a plausible explanation for those which are known or suspected to be false, but which none the less display disconcertingly vivid and detailed correspondences with other cases.

Alexander G. KEULFive Selected Cases 141-145
Abstract: Typical case histories from the 1980/81 Austrian and English cross-cultural UFO witness projects. Tape passages, diaslides and psychological test details illustrate positive and negative reporter profiles.

Luis SCHÖNHERRPosition Statement 149

Wilhelm Peter MULACZParapsychology and Ufology 151-152

Malcolm SCOTTUFOs, the Paranormal and Personality - An Interim Assessment 153-156

Claude MAUGÉLa psychiatrie face au phénomène OVNI [French] 157-168

Roberto FARABONEThe UPIAR Concept 171-173


Image not available MUFON UFO JOURNAL
Official Publication of MUFON Mutual UFO Network,Inc
No 181 March 1983
Mutual UFO Network
Name: Lawson, Alvin H. (1929 - 2010)
CONTENTS
AuthorTitlePag

From the Editor2

Marge CHRISTENSENThe South Dakota Connection 3-5

Late News 5

Bob GRIBBLEPilot Sighting and Radar Trackings 6+7

Mark MORAVECMental Communications and Psychological Disturbance
Part II
7-9

Anders LILJEGRENDesigning false Reports: Another Recent Example 10-11
(From: AFU Newsletter 24 /1982 Designing false Reports - Another Recent Example, pp. 10-11 )

California Report
Ann DRUFFELA UFologist's Fairy Tale12-13

Alvin H. LAWSONExperimenters' Response: Imaginary Abductions 14-15
Related:
MUFON UFO JOURNAL 185 July/1983 - Response To Lawson abd McCall [Deherrera, John]

Critic's Corner
Robert WANDERERThe Andreasson Adventures16-17
Related:
MUFON UFO JOURNAL 185 July/1983 - Investigator Response
MUFON UFO JOURNAL 185 July/1983 - Andreasson Case

UFO Data Mart
Wanted
17

1983 UFO Conferences 18

An Open Research Inquiry 18+19

Lucius FARISHIn Others' Words19

Walt ANDRUSDirector's Message20


Image not available Documenti UFO Monografie
I METODI IPNOTICI IN UFOLOGIA
vol. 3 1984
Centro Ufologico Nazionale, Roma
Name: Lawson, Alvin H. (1929 - 2010); Mucci, Marco (1964); Innocenti, Stefano (1957)
CONTENTS
AuthorTitlePag

Introduzione 6-7

Dominique AUDRERIEChe pensare dell'ipnosi? 8-21

Alvin H. LAWSONIpnosi di rapiti UFO immaginari 22-72
(From: UFO PHENOMENA VOL. III N. 1 /1979 Hypnosis of imaginary UFO "abductees", pp. 219-258 Translated by Marco MUCCI)

Edoardo RUSSOBibliografia su: UFO e Ipnosi 73-81


Image not available ufo press

Año VI n. 19 Enero-Marzo 1984

Editor: Alejandro AGOSTINELLI, Guillermo Carlos RONCORONI
Name: González Manso, Luis R. (1958); Lawson, Alvin H. (1929 - 2010); Agostinelli, Alejandro (1963)
CONTENTS
AuthorTitlePag

Editorial
Guillermo RONCORONIDe ahora en màs...3-5

Opinion
Roberto E. BANCHSAbducción: cuando se quiebra la razón6-9

Estudio
Alvin H. LAWSONHipnósis de "Abductees" Imaginarios10-26
(Translated by Luis R. GONZÁLEZ MANSO)

Contraencuesta
Alejandro CHIONETTI, Alejandro AGOSTINELLIEl "Rapto" de Quilmes: La Componente Etílica27-30

Estudio
José Tomás RAMIREZ Y BARBERÓCatando OVNIS31

Revision
Guillermo RONCORONIDionisio Llanca: El Informe Solari32-34
Ezeqiel H. ORTELLAFSR Escamoteo La Otra Campana35

Estudio
Alvin H. LAWSON¿Secuestro ufológico y Trauma natal?36-40
(From: UFOLOGIA Anno IV N. 1 (14) Dicembre/1982 Rapimenti e traumi da nascita: un'ipotesi testabile sull'origine dei racconti di rapimento, pp. 25-28 Translated by Alejandro AGOSTINELLI)

Polemica
Willy SMITHAlvin Lawson: ¿Promotor o Detractor?41-43
(Italian translation Il Giornale dei Misteri Anno XVI N. 172 Gennaio/1986 L'ipotesi Lawson: opinioni a confronto)
Luis R. GONZÁLEZSmith vs. Lawson:Buscar el punto justo44-47
(Italian translation Il Giornale dei Misteri Anno XVI N. 172 Gennaio/1986 Smith contro Lawson, pp. 15-16)

Bibliografia
Luis R. GONZÁLEZAbdccionbibliografía48-57

Ummorismo
¡Zafarrancho!58-59

Critica de Medios
Guillermo C. RONCORONIHangar 18 Rutinaria peripecia espacial60-61
A.C.A.¿Sugerencias?62-63
OVNI Présence63

Agrupados /Correo64-65

Homenaje66


Image not availableAuthor: Mimi HYNEK (ed.)
Title: THE SPECTRUM OF UFO RESEARCH - The Proceedings of the Second CUFOS Conference, September 25-27, 1981, Chigaco, Hillinois

Editor: Mimi HYNEK
Publisher: J.A.Hynek CUFOS, Chicago
Year: 1988
Pages: 214
Name: Lawson, Alvin H. (1929 - 2010); Ballester Olmos, Vicente-Juan (1948); Basterfield, Keith; Guasp, Miguel (1953); Holt, Alan C.; Hopkins, Budd (1931 - 2011); Hynek, Joseph Allen (1910 - 1986); Jeffers, Joan; Johnson, Donald A.; Maccabee, Bruce (1942 - 2024); Melton, Gordon J. (1942); Pinotti, Roberto (1944); Rodeghier, Mark (1953); Schechter, Howard R.; Schuessler, John F.
CONTENTS
AuthorTitlePag

Mark RODEGHIERForewordiii-iv

J. Allen HYNEK, Howard R. SCHECHTERNarrow-Band Acoustic Analisys of a Recoreded UFO Sound 1-12
Abstract: The recorded sound ascribed to the St. Helens, Oregon UFO is analyzed and found to have unique properties: the absence of even harmonics and of any frequency higher than 3000 Hert2. While such acoustic composition can be produced a rtific ia lly by, say, an electronic synthesizer, it appears to have no easily identifiable natural origin. Thus, even apart from possible UFO connection, the sound is of considerable scientific interest

Bruce MACCABEEThe McMinnville Photos 13-68
Abstract: On June 8, 1950 the local newspaper in McMinnville, Oregon published two photos of a 'flying saucer" which had been taken by Mr. and Mrs. Paul Trent, along with a brief report on when and how the photos had been taken. The story was circulated nationally by the International News Service, which also obtained the original negatives but did not return them to the Trents. The photos received national attention viien the Colorado investigators analyzed them. The conclusion presented in the "Condon Report" was that the evidence was essentially consistent with the claim that "an extraordinary flying object. .. fiew within sight of two witnesses." Later investigation indicated that the evidence referred to in the Report was not conclusive and that there seemed to be some discrepancies between the photographic evidence and the witnesses' story. A subsequent investigation of the original negatives reconfirmed Hartmann's conclusion about excessive brightness of the bottom of the image of the unidentified object (U0) and eliminated the claim that there was a relatively long time lapse between the photos. Computer-aided analysis by CSV) revealed no indication of a suspending device and did suggest a possibly excessive edge distortion which could be attributable to atmospheric distortion if the object were far away, as suggested by the photometric analysis. I have carried out an extensive investigation into the background of the sighting since 1974 and have concluded from communication with people who have met the Trents that they could not perpetrate a hoax like this. I have concluded also that it cannot be shown from either verbal or photographic evidence that the case was a hoax. When considered along with other evidence that strongly suggest that unusual objects have been seen by many technically trained, credible observers (see, for example, Project Blue Book Special Report f!4 ), the Trent case is especially valuable because of the clarity of the photos.

John F. SCHUESSLERMedical injuries Resulting from a UFO Encounter (Cash/Landrum Case) 69-70

Alvin H. LAWSONA Touchstone for Fallacious Abductions: Birth Trauma Imagery in CE III Narratives 71-98

Gordon J. MELTONThe Contactees: A Surey 99-108

Roberto PINOTTIEVIDENCE FOR UFOs IN THE ITALIAN PAST 109-123

Donald A. JOHNSONSize, Distance, and Duration Parameters of the Ignition-Interference Effect 123-152

Mark RODEGHIERA Summary of Vehicle Interference Reports and a Description of a Possible Natural Phenomenon Causing Some Events 153-168

Budd HOPKINSInvestigating Abduction Cases 169-174

Vicente-Juan BALLESTER OLMOS, Miguel GUASPStandars in the Evaluation of UFO Reports 175-182

Keith BASTERFIELDCan Imagery Explain Certain UFO Close Encounters? 183-188

Alan C. HOLTUFO Maneuvers and Radiation: A Theoretical Perspective 189-196

Joan JEFFERSUFOs and the "Psychic Connection" or are we Missing the Message by Not Asking the Right Questions? 197-210


Image not availableAuthor: Dennis STILLINGS (ed.)
Title: CYBER BIOLOGICAL STUDIES OF THE IMAGINAL COMPONENT IN THE UFO CONTACT EXPERIENCE
Publisher: Archaeus Project, St.Paul, Min.
Year: 1989
Pages: 174
Name: Lawson, Alvin H. (1929 - 2010); Evans, Hilary (1929 - 2011); Grosso, Michael; Kottmeyer, Martin S. (1953); Nugent, Tony; Persinger, Michael A. (1945 - 2018); Raschke, Carl; Rojcewicz, Peter M.; Stillings, Dennis
CONTENTS
AuthorTitlePag

Preface
The Cyberbiology of Saucers1-6

Hilary EVANSBelieving the Unbelievable: Child's Play or Con Game? 7-18

Dennis STILLINGSIntermezzo 1
Belief: Personal Reminiscences
19-20

Carl RASCHKEUFOs: Ultraterrestrial Agents of Cultural Deconstruction 21-32

Dennis STILLINGSWhat Did Carl Gustav Jung Believe about Flying Saucers? 33-49

Martin S. KOTTMEYERUfology Considered as an Evolving System of Paranoia 51-60

Dennis STILLINGSIntermezzo 2
Voices: A Small Cyberbiological Effect
61-63

Peter M. ROJCEWICZSignals of Transcendence: The Human-UFO Equation 65-79

Michael GROSSOUFO and the Myth of the New Age 81-98

Dennis STILLINGSIntermezzo 3
Coverups
99-108

Tony NUGENTQuicksilver in Twilight: A Close Encounter with a Hermetic Eye 109-124

Alvin H. LAWSONA Testable Theory for UFO Abduction Reports: The Birth Memories Hypothesis 125-142

Dennis STILLINGSIntermezzo 4
Some Observations on UFO "Abductions" with Special Reference to Budd Hopkins' Missing Time
143-155

Michael A. PERSINGERThe "Visitor" Experience and the Personality: The Temporal Lobe Factor 157-171

Afterword 173-174