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Donald E. Keyhoe (1897-1988) Documented accounts of UFO secrecy between 1955 and 1960 reveal policies and actions initiated by United States government officials that are still influencing contemporary perceptions about UFO and contactee cases.  The responsibilities of contemplating the UFO evidence has often been delegated to military jurisdictions and this has emphasized uncertainties among people who have no knowledge of the subject.  My previous blog articles in their totality indicate how apprehensions about UFO potentialities are unjustified.  Reports that were declassified in 1985 reveal Senator Richard B. Russell, Jr. experienced a UFO sighting while he was aboard a train in the Soviet Union in 1955.  The National UFO Reporting Center article “Looking Back” — “October 1955"   by Bob Gribble includes the following: Mr. Tom Towers, in his January 20, 1957 column “Aviation News,” for the Los Angeles, CA, Examiner , printed the contents of a letter from Sena...

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Choosing the Right Parents: the Best Way to Stay Lean? In 1990, Dr. Claude Bouchard and colleagues published a simple but fascinating study demonstrating the importance of genetics in body fatness ( 1 ).  They took advantage of one of the most useful tools in human genetics: identical twins.  This is what happens when a single fertilized egg generates two embryos  in utero and two genetically identical humans are born from the same womb.   By comparing identical twins to other people who are not genetically identical (e.g., non-identical twins), we can quantify the impact of genes vs. environment on individual characteristics ( 2 ). Read more »

  This photo was published in the Feb. 26, 1942 edition of the Los Angeles Times .  A colossal black triangular object is faintly discernible above the bright area illuminated by spotlights.  Below are the front page headlines. Modern UFOlogy began to evolve during the eventful decade of the 1940s.  One milestone was first chronicled in newspaper reports about Idaho pilot Kenneth Arnold's sighting of what articles described as "nine shiny objects flying at 1,200 miles per hour flying over the coast range of Western Washington" on June 24, 1947. Preceding this event, one of the most widely witnessed UFO encounters occurred in 1942 in the sky above Los Angeles during the uneasy period following the attack on Pearl Harbor, although at this time the expression 'unidentified flying object' was not yet part of the popular vernacular.  The event has come to be known as the ‘Battle of Los Angeles.’  The banner headline in the Los Angeles Times the following mor...

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This is one of the photographic images reported to be of 'The Phoenix Lights.' Seven years after my trip to Arizona , I decided to see if there was any further information available on the Internet about the people I'd met in 1998. I learned that Jeff Willes had produced his first DVD of his UFO video recordings entitled “UFOs Over Phoenix Volume 1.”  His website is ufosoverphoenix.com . Frances Emma Barwood had been defeated in the primary election in her bid to become Arizona secretary of state.  A March 2002 article by Thomas Ropp in The Arizona Republic entitled “Mystery lingers over sighting of Phoenix Lights” offered a look back at the controversial night and quoted the official military explanation: “the ‘V’ formation was a squadron of military planes and the balls of light were high-intensity flares.”  There was also a mention of Barwood. Former Phoenix Councilwoman Frances Emma Barwood said the local media ridiculed her when she asked for and was denied an inves...