Flying Saucer Review February 1976 [antikvár]

FLYINGVol.22 No. 5,1976 (published February, 1977)Editor CHARLES BOWEN ConsultantsGORDON CREIGHTON, MA, FRAI, FRGS, FRASC. MAXWELL CADE, AInstP, FRAS, AFRAeS, CEng, FIEE, FIEREBERNARD E. FINCH, MRCS, LRCP, DCh, FBISCHARLES H. GIBBS-SMITH, MA, FMA, Hon Companion RAeS, FRSAR. H. B. WINDER, BSc, CEng, FIMech E PERCY HENNELL, FIBPI. GRATTAN-GUINNESS, MA, MSc, PhDOrerami J. ALLEN HYNEK, PhDAIME MICHELBERTHOLD E. SCHWARZ, MDAssistant Editor EILEEN BUCKLEcontentsUFO silver-suited entity seen near Winchester: Leslie Harris 3UFO Occupants reported near Winchester: R. Nash 7Questions Comments on the Nash interview: Jenny Randies 8Alleged CE-lll at Winchester: Vehicle examination: F.J. Wood 9UFOs and mysterious deaths of animals Part 1: S. Robiou Lamarche15UFO Physics - 1 Jan Heering 19Close Encounter of the Third Kind in Italy: Renzo Cabassi 23The UFO investigator as counsellor and healter: J.B. Musgrave 26Road hazard down under: Bill Chalker 28Mail Bag 32World Round Up iii FSR Publications Ltd.Contributions appearing in this magazine do not necessarily reflect its policy and are published without prejudice^L For subscription details and address please see foot of ^P page ii of coverAn international journal devoted to the study of Unidentified Flying ObjectsABIDING INTERESTC TRICTLY SPEAKING the interest shown by Flying Saucer Review . in reports of high altitude pass-overs of alleged unidentified flying objects has been minimal in recent years. Here and there a space-filler, occasionally a "puzzler," but generally speaking that interest has only heightened at times of vigorously reported low-level activity of other kinds, which includes alleged close viewings and closer encounters. For that is where most of the intriguing mysteries and burgeoning problems of this subject are to be found.That too may have been the impression that many guests and newcomers gained at the recent successful conference of the British UFO Research Association (BUFORA), held in the forward-looking industrial and commercial city of Birmingham during the weekend November 5 to 7, 1976. For the very welcome guest of honour was FSR's old friend and contributor, Ted Bloecher, the vastly experienced researcher of CSI, of NICAP, and presently of MUFON and the Center for UFO Studies, who is also well-known as historian of the 1947 wave. And the paper which Mr. Bloecher gave, entitled The Humanoids; an analysis of UFO Occupant cases, was well-received and evoked great interest. Even the members of the Press who were present whose colleagues earlier in the day had headlined the advance announcement of the meeting with a predictable gem, "Flying Saucer folk in town" put aside their little green spectacles and stayed at least until Ted had shown his slides. One verdict, which appeared in the Birmingham Evening News of November 8, 1976, under the headline "Down to earth sky watchers" was that the people who had gathered together for this conference " do not look like 'weirdos' " for which small mercy we suppose we must be thankful. To be fair, the writer of the article presented a resume of Midlands incidents, and official reaction thereto, which she had gleaned from interviews with members of UFO Studies Information Service (UFOSIS), the Birmingham group which hosted the conference.Judging by the rest of the newspaper report, which contained precious little about the conference, it is doubtful whether the newsmen or women heard the wide variety of technical and other papers which included contributions like "UFO waves and their prediction" by B. Delair; "The vehicle interference effect" by Anthony Pace; "A unified extra-terrestrial hypothesis in explanation of the UFO phenomenon" by Tim O'Brien; "A projected study of fluid vortex rings and plasma phenomena as an explanatory hypothesis for the UFO" by M. Stenhoff, and "They shoot UFOs, don't they?" a UFO-photography paper by Robert Digby. It is open to doubt too that they would have taken account of the considerable attention that BUFORA pays to data processing, photo analysis and investigation and assessment of reports of UFOs which include a large number which fit into the high pass-over category. Also they may not have seen the BUFORA publication UFO Investigation - a handbook for UFO investigators* which devotes a large proportion of its space to the* Enquiries to Miss Jenny Randies, 23 Sunningdale Drive, Irlam, Greater Manchester M30 6NJ.