Exploring Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP)

INTRODUCTION TO VOLUME 29

The traditional cooperation between university research and Federal Government support and collaboration on the most advanced scientific and technological levels seems to have broken down in the case of the most surprising and unexplained phenomena associated with the appearances of UFO/UAP phenomena. In contrast, we recall the times in living memory when Professor Enrico Fermi at the University of Chicago, shortly after the outbreak of WW II, led a program of nuclear energy research oriented toward weaponizing the new science as an atomic bomb. The University research was immediately shrouded in secrecy and enormous programs of producing uranium and designing explosives technology was undertaken in utmost secrecy, and produced the desired results.

This collaboration of university research and government/military collaboration seems to have ended in the investigation of the UFO/UAP phenomena. Because ordinary individuals sourced nearly all of the data, the scientific approach seems to have faltered, in large part because the scientific community sternly stuck to the narrative that such contacts by non-human intelligence were impossible because the distances to other solar systems are so large that it would take impossibly long times to reach our planet.

The purpose of this volume in Journal of Cosmology is to re-awaken normal scientific curiosity and approach to scientifically investigate the UAP phenomena in the familiar procedures and disciplines of science.

With this goal, I am pleased to announce that Dr. Hal Puthoff has agreed to be the Special Guest Editor for our first UAP Volume. His credentials are well known; his PhD from Stanford University with research in atomic physics, but also his researches in the area of consciousness, with compelling results demonstrating that quantum forces operating in our Universe allow the mind to tune into information that could not possibly be the result of normal vision.

Following rigorous scientific research procedures he demonstrated in multiple experiments astounding statistical results demonstrating the possibility of remote viewing by the brain. The first paper in this new volume is authored by Dr. Puthoff and lays out the foundational precepts by which this research must be undertaken and critically described. A fundamental precept of this effort is to avoid reaching any far ranging conclusions about the nature of the phenomenon until the research results have been confirmed by an independent research group. We hope to advance our knowledge of the puzzling UAP phenomena in this way.