Let's Hope They're Friendly: The Kaikoura UFOs. First verified film encounter with Unidentified Flying Objects. by Quentin Fogarty

Author:Quentin Fogarty [Fogarty, Quentin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Quentin Fogarty
Published: 2014-02-22T05:00:00+00:00

Professor J Allen Hynek, Director of the UFO Centre for UFO Studies.

Unfortunately, Hynek had another engagement in Chicago and had to leave to catch his plane before the press conference had finished. Although he was there for only a short time his presence added prestige and credibility to our case. Then it was Bruce Maccabee’s turn, and it was a Bruce Maccabee I had not seen before. In the short time I had known him, I found him a rather shy, quietly spoken individual. But there was nothing shy about his performance that morning. He showed a previously hidden confidence and he certainly had no fear of the assembled scribes. At one stage he gave them a tongue-lashing for the media’s penchant for sensationalising UFO stories and even told one reporter that he thought his question was stupid. Still, no one got up and walked out, for which we were thankful.

Maccabee had done his homework and had taken the added precaution of submitting the film and his findings to other scientists. A total of 20 scientists and experts in the fields of optics, radar and physics studied our case and gave it their backing. They included Dr Richard Haines, an optical physiologist employed by NASA; Dr Gilbert Levin, a biophysicist, whose company was involved in the design of the life-detection system sent to Mars on the Viking probes; and Dr Peter Sturrock, a plasma physicist at Stanford University. The others included four scientists working for a company in Palo Alto, California, a radar expert employed by a company in Northern Virginia, and several US Navy scientists. Most of the scientists who had analysed the evidence and gave it their backing requested that neither their names nor their organisations be mentioned because of their sensitive positions.

“Part of this is because of the press,” Maccabee told the conference. “The press usually plays up these stories and gives the whole subject a bad reputation.” This, he said, had been going on since UFOs were first reported back in 1947-48 and had led to many people being publicly criticised.

“Nobody likes to be criticised,” said Maccabee, “and the press added to this. They would concentrate on what’s been called the little green men stories, so it’s your guys’ fault that I can’t quote a group of four experts in Palo Alto, a radar expert working for a company in northern Virginia, a group of government agency scientists and several Navy scientists.

“Some of these radar people are the people who this country is relying on to make sure the Russians don’t get ahead of us. I don’t expect you guys are going to print this, but it’s your fault!”

That was when I would not have been surprised if someone had taken umbrage, but obviously the story was too hot, or the skins of the New York press corps too tough, to warrant a walkout.

Maccabee spent some time going through the various theories that had been advanced to explain away our sightings in conventional terms and, as

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