title: The UFO Enigma: A New Review of the Physical Evidence
author:  Peter A. Sturrock 
description: If the truth is out there, why haven't we found it? A 1997 conference at the Pocantico center in Tarrytown, N.Y., assembled UFO researchers and distinguished air and space scientists to review theories and evidence concerning inexplicable lights, big disks and other odd, exciting stuff in the sky. If they produced no new conclusions, their work certainly makes informative reading. A professor emeritus of Space Science and Astrophysics at Stanford, Sturrock synthesizes the conference reports and deliberations into 120 carefully considered pages. One presentation (in Sturrock's summary) shows why some UFOs can be explained as weather-related phenomena. Another shows why UFO investigators and SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) radio astronomers don't get along. Sturrock calls for more, and more widely available, research into UFOs; he notes that physical scientists, while not trained to evaluate witness reports, can analyze material evidence. Most of the rest of the book is comprised of essays ("Post-Pocantico Reflections") and "Case Material" (about specific UFO reports) by a variety of hands. Richard Haines considers a Frisbee-shaped aerial object in a vacationer's photo; Jennie Zeidman reports on "A Helicopter-UFO Encounter Over Ohio." The ongoing French study called GEPAN or SEPRA emerges as a leader in recent studies of UFOs, decidedly on the back burner in the United States. All the contributors write in the impersonal, precise, deliberately colorless language proper to scientific journal articles. If the results are less than thrilling, they represent a hoard of raw information, and some admirably cautious reasoning, from which any reader who already cares about UFOs might be glad to learn. Photos, charts and diagrams not seen by PW. (Nov.) <br />Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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  UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS 
  BRIEFING DOCUMENT 
   
  THE BEST AVAILABLE EVIDENCE 
   
  by  
  DON BERLINER 
   
  with 
  Marie Galbraith 
  Antonio Huneeus 
   
   
   
   
   
  Presented by 
  CUFONS, FUFOR, MUFON 
  December 1995 
   
   
  
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
  Published in the United States 
  Copyright © by the UFO Research Coalition 
  All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form, without written 
  permission from the copyright holder, unless by a reviewer who wishes to quote brief passages. 
  Printed in the United States of America 
   
   
  
  Contents 
  LETTER OF ENDORSEMENT ........................................................................................ 1 
  ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ............................................................................................... 2 
  Part 1 Overview 
  GOVERNMENT SECRECY ............................................................................................ 3 
  THE CASE FOR UFO REALITY ............................................