Is Anyone Out There? by Jack Stoneley

Author:Jack Stoneley [Stoneley, Jack]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780446765749
Amazon: 0446765740
Goodreads: 536892
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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Footnotes:

Newton’s rings are colored rings due to light interferences that are seen about the contact of a convex lens with a plane surface or of two lenses differing in curvature.

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Similarly, examples of exhaustive detective work are carried out when particularly strong evidence of UFOs is reported. One such sighting was actually photographed by a woman with a motion-picture camera onboard a plane taking off from England. When she projected her developed film, the family gathering was staggered to see a strange object suddenly appear on the screen, hover for a few seconds and then vanish. It was sausage-shaped and moved at such a rate that experts said it would have required phenomenal acceleration to perform such a maneuver. Immediately the press ran headlines of flying saucers.

Investigators then asked the woman passenger if she had panned, or swept, her camera across the aircraft window. She had, and this gave them the explanation of the UFO. From the angle at which she had been sitting in the plane, the balance weight on the end of the aircraft elevator was just visible near the edge of the window. When the camera “was panned through this angle, the balance weight took on a distorted shape - the sausage shape shown on the home movie. Since the illusion was only visible over a small angle, the object seemed to move very fast indeed.

The theory was proved later by mounting another motion-picture camera in the appropriate aircraft seat and swinging through the same angles as the woman had done. Sure enough, when the film was projected, there was the same shape moving in precisely the way it had on the home movie. To complete the test, another shot taken with the camera held firmly at the same angle “froze” the shape, and it showed up quite clearly as the balance weight.

Many flying saucer sightings over the last ten years have resulted from high-powered xenon arc lamps now carried by modern aircraft. These produce a brilliant blue-white light visible over forty miles. They can look exactly like a bright star traveling very slowly, and, due to deceptive perspective, can appear to be at a low altitude. In addition, these lights can be pulsed, or coded, to flash on and off very rapidly, like an airborne lighthouse.

Back in 1953 Anthony Lawton was with a research team which, led by the eminent Sir Barnes Wallis, was developing the world’s first swing-wing aircraft (work that eventually led to the present F-lll). They were using an isolated ex-Royal Air Force base in Cornwall, England. When test flights began, the strange and unorthodox shapes of those pilotless, radio-controlled craft sweeping across the Cornish countryside led to a flood of flying saucer reports.

They were propelled by liquid-fuel rocket motors that could be switched on and off in flight. When off, the aircraft glided with an eerie moaning sound as the air passed over the unusual body shape. When the rocket motors were switched on, the craft would leap forward with a screeching roar, terrifying people who had no idea what they were.

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