Back in 1950, during a lunch break at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, several scientists were trading wisecracks about a recent spate of UFO reports when Nobel Prize-winning physicist Enrico Fermi offered an observation that has echoed through the decades. Given the number of places where life could exist in the vast universe, and

By Sarah Kaplan The Washington Post 8-4-17

the length of time it has had to evolve, the skies ought to be teeming with beings from advanced, space-faring civilizations — but nothing incontrovertible has shown up. You have to wonder, as Fermi did, “Where is everybody?”

His colleagues chuckled, but the “Fermi paradox” perfectly frames the profound absurdity of the search for life beyond Earth. Humans have beamed beacons into space, robotically visited every world in the solar system and discovered thousands of planets circling stars far from our own. Yet all we’ve encountered is a chilly void.

Still, the possibility that something is out there calls to us.

Three new books approach the mystery from distinctly different perspectives: the unlikely believer in UFOs, the visionary dedicated to rigorous investigation and the cadre of scientists who still plug away at the problem, probing the universe for an answer.
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Mark O’Connell’s The Close Encounters Manexamines the astronomer J. Allen Hynek’s scientific career and his parallel work in UFO research. O’Connell shows how Hynek, a skeptical advisor to the US Air Force’s UFO Projects SIGN, Grudge, and Blue Book, became an advocate for serious UFO studies and the founder the Center for UFO Studies. Project 1947 looks at the Hynek’s last contract with the USAF Project Blue Book UFO program. It wasn’t to be Hynek’s last USAF contract. After the Condon report, Hynek submitted a proposal to Col. George R.

By Jan Aldrich The UFO Chronicles 7-7-17

Weinbrenner, Commander of the Foreign Technology Division at Wright-Patterson AFB to do a special study of UFOs. Col. Weinbrenner had invited such a proposal, perhaps as a diplomatic sop to Hynek at the end of his last contract or perhaps as a completely serious offer. However, indications were that Weinbrenner was supposedly sympathetic to UFO research. What the result of the Hynek’s proposal was continues to be unknown, but he was contracted by the Air Force for some work for the next four years 1970-1974.
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A new biography on scientist Dr. J. Allen Hynek shows that we might be on the verge of another cluster of UFO sighting reports

When the unassuming turn of phrase "unidentified flying object" was coined in the 1940s, it was intended to suggest that the objects in question were nothing more mysterious than a rogue weather balloon or an unfamiliar aircraft. UFOs have since become synonymous

By Annaliese Griffin Rolling Stone 7-6-17

with aliens, from cartoon flying saucers, to abduction stories, to X-Files-style conspiracy theories – in the popular imagination their mystery has been solved, UFOs equal aliens, whether you're a true believer or not. This unshakable association came to be despite the diligent work Dr. J. Allen Hynek, a scientist who became convinced that we truly could not identify some objects in our skies, and kept pushing throughout his life for a scientific explanation, while keeping open every possibility, some of them way further out there than little green men.
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“Ufology today is in the state I would say chemistry was when chemistry was alchemy, a mixture of superstition, wild ideas, unproved claims, and yet out of that whole mess, finally the very first class science of chemistry evolved. And I think the same thing is going to happen eventually with Ufology, but right now, it is a mess. ..."

By Curt Collins Blue Blurry Lines 6-30-17

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'The Close Encounters Man' tells the unlikely story of how the government's astrophysicist debunker became the phenomenon's most expert defender.

If you're jonesing for an extraterrestrial, you should check out "The Close Encounters Man" by Mark O'Connell.O'Connell, a writer for Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and founder of the UFO blog High Strangeness, set out to write "a UFO book people wouldn't need to hide from other people."

By J. W. McCormack www.vice.com 5-30-17

He found his ideal subject in J. Allen Hynek, the astronomer hired by the United States Air Force in 1948 to debunk the reports of strange objects in the sky flooding in from across the country. Eventually Hynek broke with his handlers and became the first scientist to lend credence to the UFO phenomenon. ...
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History has ordered a 10-episode scripted drama from executive producer Robert Zemeckis straight to series, Variety has learned. Currently titled “Blue Book,” the series chronicles the real top secret

By Joe Otterson Variety 5-25-17

United States Air Force-sponsored investigations into UFO-related phenomena in the 1950s and ’60s known as Project Blue Book. It will focus on college professor Dr. J. Allen Hynek, who is recruited by the military to spearhead the project.

“Rarely have I been associated with a project that is a perfect fusion of historical fact and extraordinary entertainment,” said Zemeckis. ...
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Editor's Note: J. Allen Hynek condemns the Condon Report and explains the term, "swamp gas" in a rare interview with The Amazing Kreskin.(Original air-date: Jan 17, 1972)

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Gerald R. Ford didn't want to believe. He wanted to know what the hell was happening in Michigan.

By Megan Logan www.inverse.com 4-6-16

Fifty years ago, soon-to-be president and then-representative Gerald R. Ford changed the conversation about UFOs in a very permanent way. In 1966, a growing number of reported sightings of Unidentified Flying Objects were coming out of Michigan. Naturally, people were concerned. Being the representative of the state’s 5th District, Ford shared their concern and called upon congress to conduct a “congressional inquiry” into the matter.

And he wasn’t shy about taking on the problem. UFOs were getting a lot of media attention and Ford didn’t shy away from a spotlight. He issued a pre-hearing press release making the case for government transparency and calling out a prominent astronomer.

Ford proposed that either the Science and Astronautics Committee or the Armed Services Committee of the House schedule UFO hearings and “invite testimony from both the executive branch of the government and some of the persons who claim to have seen UFO’s.” Politically speaking, he was all in. [...]
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During an over flight of a UFO over trees, the trees often move as under the influence of a storm. This is due to the gravitational dipole field that, depending on the distance, either pushes the trees to the ground or attracts them.

For many years the famous UFO researcher Dr. J. Allen Hynek badgered himself with the question: What explanation could there be for the UFO phenomenon? As an astronomer he was aware of the fact that, at least for humans, it is not possible with our current technical capabilities to bridge the unimaginable distances in space. Hynek, therefore, had the idea to regard UFOs as a space-time singularity and he explained this unusual approach during a MUFON conference in Dayton, Ohio (USA) in 1978:

By Illobrand von Ludwiger The UFO Chronicles 4-2-16

“Maybe it isn't our psychic energies that cause UFOs to appear, but someone else's psychic energy. Perhaps someone in outer space is projecting their psychic energy and focusing it here, where it then produces the UFO phenomena. No trouble now combining physical trace cases with dematerialization and localization in space and in time...We postulate an extremely advanced civilization somewhere in space, which has as part of its technology an extremely advanced form of our own, but incorporates into its technology what we today loosely call the paranormal, the parapsychological. That is, perhaps a truly advanced technology incorporates ESP, psychokinesis, teleportation, mental telepathy as part of their everyday technology as we incorporate transistors and computers in ours...To such a technology, the idea of building nuts-and-bolts spacecraft and blasting them off from some space Cape Canaveral would seem archaic and childlike. Perhaps all they have to do to get someplace is to think themselves there, projecting a thought form, or a force field to any part of space they want and causing it to manifest there, on that plane.” (Ninth Annual MUFON UFO Symposium Proceedings, Dayton, Ohio, July 29 & 30, 1978, p.121)

At that time, no one took J. Allen Hynek's fantastic hypothesis seriously. However, over the years, with the repeated demonstration of the incredible properties exhibited by Unidentified Flying Objects, and the emergence of new theoretical and physical models, more and more UFO phenomenon researchers have come to respect Hynek’s foresight.

Even more amazing than J. Allen Hynek's visionary far-sightedness is the fact that, as early as in the 1950s and ‘60s, a German prodigy developed an extensive physical theory, which already included not only the predictions of the legendary UFO researcher, but which also explained many of the physical interactions observed during UFO encounters: The Unified Quantum Field Theory proposed by the blind, almost deaf and handless physicist Burkhard Heim.

Burkhard Heim had learned to write on a blackboard with his cloven arm and by help of a magnifying glass in front of his left eye (1995).

In 1944, while experimenting with explosives, Heim had a very serious accident that almost cost him his life. In the 1950s, he conducted research in Göttingen at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics with Professor Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, but eventually had to give up his activities there because of his physical handicaps. Burkhard Heim began working on his unified theory of electromagnetic and gravitational fields in private, being supported by his father and his wife.

The physical interactions that UFOs exert on their environment suggest a technology that is able to create and manipulate gravitational fields as predicted by Heim's theory. During some close encounters it was observed that trees were swinging back and forth, as if moved by wind, while the objects were gliding along smoothly in the air above. But, in fact, there was no wind at the time and it was, therefore, suggested that gravitational forces generated by the objects had pushed aside the trees (see above top).

From Heim’s research important assumptions can be derived concerning interactions between gravitational and magnetic fields. According to the “Contrabaric Effect” postulated by him, it should be possible to create a gravitational field, and also according to the "Heim-Lorentz-Effect", masses rotating in a strong magnetic field are expected to generate uplift forces that should be able to counteract the gravitational forces of the earth. It is well known from a large number of encounters with disk-shaped objects that they often seem to rotate or at least possess rings or parts that rotate. In addition to stabilizing the flight axis, this rotation could also serve to generate a gravitational field used to drive the objects.

In some cases, UFO witnesses reported cold effects emanating from the objects. Heim's theory also predicts that entropy decreases in the presence of low-frequency gravitational field pulses - thus this kind of radiation has an organizing effect and extracts heat from the surrounding environment. On the other hand, there are also reports of heat effects in the vicinity of the objects, which presumably arise from microwaves.

The so-called “solid lights” are also observed regularly during UFO sightings and are described by the witnesses as “light rays with very unusual properties”. They can be explained by Heim’s theory to some extent at least. Solid lights were observed to “extend” and “withdraw”, to end in mid-air and even to bend. According to Heim, they can be interpreted as gravitational perturbations: They represent areas in the sky which are gravitationally-manipulated and, as a side effect, begin to glow.

The examples above indicate that the Unified Quantum Field Theory opens the possibility of explaining various interactions of UFOs with their environment by the same physical mechanism, namely the emission of gravitational pulses that are capable of creating high-frequency microwaves and low-frequency cold-radiation in the surrounding air. Thus, for the first time, UFO phenomenon researchers have a model at their disposal that allows them to at least basically understand the seemingly physically impossible and magic-like effects observed during UFO encounters.

The unexplained phenomena also include the sudden appearance and disappearance of objects as well as their frequently-observed transparent-like, seemingly “non-physical” properties. Apart from the three spatial and the one time-like dimensions of space-time, Heim's theory postulates two additional imaginary dimensions, which permit the organization of structures and their temporal realization in space. According to Heim, a geometrical description of elementary particles cannot be successful without these two additional dimensions. In this six-dimensional hyperspace, so-called “activity-streams” are in existence in the trans-areas of the world that are normally not tangent to space (“trans” means beyond space-time). In cases where they are tangent to space, they would be capable of changing the quantum-statistical probability states of material structures.

There is a six-dimensional principle of Relativity according to which an object can disappear from space to become a “complex of ideas” or an “image” once the organizational weighing or significance of the material object takes place, with a certain speed transmitted by activity-streams. The object is no longer present in space, but is instead located in the trans-areas where there are no spatial distances, only structures. In these trans-areas a local displacement in the six-dimensional hyperspace takes place instantaneously through “structural resonances”.

It will be a future task of physics to detect and generate such activity-streams and to apply them to space technology. If this becomes a reality, it would also be possible to realize Hynek’s suppositions concerning an instantaneous space-displacement as it already seems to have been achieved elsewhere in the universe.

The English translation of physicist Illobrand von Ludwiger’s book “Das Neue Weltbild des Physikers Burkhard Heim” (“The New Worldview of the Physicist Burkhard Heim”), which has been available since February 2016, allows Burkhard Heim’s pioneering work to be better known internationally, which will hopefully result in a scientific discussion of his ideas, not only among UFO researchers - but even more importantly - among theoretical physicists.

The English PDF version can be downloaded here:

The new Worldview of the Physicist Burkhard Heim

Below you will find the link to a website about Burkhard Heim containing selected results of his work and also including the final formulation of his mass formula:

Heimsche Theorie - Heim Theory

Contact: i.v.ludwiger@t-online.de

* Translation, proof-reading and correction by: Michael Landwehr (http://www.das-ufo-phaenomen.de/), Corinna von Ludwiger, Robert Hastings(http://www.ufohastings.com/).

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J Allen Hynek has gleaned the 1,000 most interesting UFO cases from his catalogue of over 80,000 UFO sightings

Chicago Sun-Times 5-12-1985

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