Truth is out there: UFOs just plasma
Truth is out there: UFOs just plasma
08. May 06
LONDON: Britain's defence intelligence chiefs have come up with a detailed scientific explanation to solve the mystery of unidentified flying objects.
After a four-year inquiry, they have concluded that most UFO sightings can be explained by a little-understood atmospheric phenomenon.
Defence Intelligence Staff scientists describe how glowing "plasmas" of gas are created by charges of electricity. Airflows then sculpt the plasmas into aerodynamic shapes which appear to fly at extraordinary speeds through the sky.
Their report is emphatic that UFOs do not come from alien civilisations or hostile powers, but equally it does not dismiss those who claim to have seen them as fantasists or hoaxers.
Instead, the scientists say such plasmas can play tricks on the mind, creating vivid impressions.
They note that "local (electromagnetic) fields ... have been medically proven to cause responses in the temporal lobes of the brain".
As a result, UFO witnesses may suffer from "extended memory retention and repeat experiences" induced by the plasmas.
Their report says that, though UFOs have "defied credible description" as to their cause, they are confident they now have "a reasonably justified explanation".
It goes on to recommend that the findings on UFOs - of which more than 100 are sighted in most years - could be developed for "novel military applications", adding that Russia is already investigating such weapons.
The report has been released under the Freedom of Information Act following an application by David Clarke, a lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University, and Gary Anthony, a fellow researcher.
The pair will give a presentation on the results this week.
It has been a bad year for conspiracy theorists. Last month, the "Roswell incident", another favourite, was debunked.
John Humphreys, a special effects expert behind the TV cyber-presenter Max Headroom, claimed he was one of the hoaxers behind grainy black and white footage supposedly showing an autopsy on alien corpses in 1947. He said the "bodies" were latex models.
Files released last year under freedom of information laws showed that the British Ministry of Defence maintained a special unit, named S4F, responsible for logging sightings of UFOs by the public and the military.
Those files gave detailed accounts of sightings but did not indicate that the intelligence services were using the information as the basis of an inquiry codenamed Project Condign.
The unit began its inquiry in 1996, intending to assess any danger UFOs might pose to Britain's air defences (it concluded they pose none).
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08. May 06
LONDON: Britain's defence intelligence chiefs have come up with a detailed scientific explanation to solve the mystery of unidentified flying objects.
After a four-year inquiry, they have concluded that most UFO sightings can be explained by a little-understood atmospheric phenomenon.
Defence Intelligence Staff scientists describe how glowing "plasmas" of gas are created by charges of electricity. Airflows then sculpt the plasmas into aerodynamic shapes which appear to fly at extraordinary speeds through the sky.
Their report is emphatic that UFOs do not come from alien civilisations or hostile powers, but equally it does not dismiss those who claim to have seen them as fantasists or hoaxers.
Instead, the scientists say such plasmas can play tricks on the mind, creating vivid impressions.
They note that "local (electromagnetic) fields ... have been medically proven to cause responses in the temporal lobes of the brain".
As a result, UFO witnesses may suffer from "extended memory retention and repeat experiences" induced by the plasmas.
Their report says that, though UFOs have "defied credible description" as to their cause, they are confident they now have "a reasonably justified explanation".
It goes on to recommend that the findings on UFOs - of which more than 100 are sighted in most years - could be developed for "novel military applications", adding that Russia is already investigating such weapons.
The report has been released under the Freedom of Information Act following an application by David Clarke, a lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University, and Gary Anthony, a fellow researcher.
The pair will give a presentation on the results this week.
It has been a bad year for conspiracy theorists. Last month, the "Roswell incident", another favourite, was debunked.
John Humphreys, a special effects expert behind the TV cyber-presenter Max Headroom, claimed he was one of the hoaxers behind grainy black and white footage supposedly showing an autopsy on alien corpses in 1947. He said the "bodies" were latex models.
Files released last year under freedom of information laws showed that the British Ministry of Defence maintained a special unit, named S4F, responsible for logging sightings of UFOs by the public and the military.
Those files gave detailed accounts of sightings but did not indicate that the intelligence services were using the information as the basis of an inquiry codenamed Project Condign.
The unit began its inquiry in 1996, intending to assess any danger UFOs might pose to Britain's air defences (it concluded they pose none).
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