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This book was inspired by, and is loosely based on, "The UFO Experience: A Scientific Inquiry" (1972) by the late Dr. J Allen Hynek. Dr. Hynek's book is generally considered to be the most influential book ever written about UFOs, but much has happened since 1972. This new book not only brings us up-to-date, but extrapolates on current science whenever possible. Perspectives are offered in three basic categories: natural causes, domestic technology, and alien technology. But perhaps more importantly a new way of looking at the phenomena is proposed that has been largely overlooked by other authors, and which finds itself at home in any of these three possibilities. The reader will not find discussion of conspiracy theories, accounts of abductions, or metaphysical and supernatural hypotheses. However, one will find speculations about possible alien visitations, what alien technology might be capable of, or what the distant future might hold.
- Sales Rank: #4662980 in Books
- Brand: Brand: Schooner Moon Books
- Published on: 2008-02-12
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.00" h x .39" w x 6.00" l, .56 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 168 pages
- Used Book in Good Condition
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
About UFOs: Thoughtful Speculations, Respect for Science
By Donald R. Burleson
Author Robert L. Mason, a professional engineer and a sort of UFO agnostic with a lively interest in the subject, starts by saying (correctly) that the whole topic of UFOs is all too thoroughly polluted with mystical nonsense of one kind or another, and that a scientific approach is the best way to remedy things. (As one of the `hard science' guys in the field of UFO studies, I certainly can't argue with that.) He rightly identifies astronomer J. Allen Hynek as one from whom one does well to derive inspiration, though complaining that too much of Hynek's data was anecdotal. (Unhappily, we experienced UFO investigators all know that this is usually the case. Hard empirical data can be difficult to come by.)
Mason cites a case report from 1958 from one Gordon Chism, giving a transcript of a taped interview in which Chism describes the anomalous object he observed. The account is a nicely detailed and intriguing report from an apparently perceptive witness, but not, I would say, unusual as UFO reports go; it does have the merit of being a fairly early report that otherwise would probably not have been recorded.
More interestingly the author, in the spirit of scientific inquiry, provides various thought experiments that have the potential to be useful in attempting to account for some of the sightings UFO witnesses have reported over the years. As all respecters of good science are natural skeptics looking for alternative hypotheses, and since the majority of UFO cases can indeed be mundanely explained (while a fascinating few cannot!) this is essentially a healthy approach to the subject. For example, Mason suggests (in one of the thought experiments) a possible connection between aerial sightings and atmospheric optical effects of particle streams from sunspot activity, but finds no significant correlations from the available data.
Mason engages in interesting speculations based on the quantum phenomenon of particle entanglement, suggesting that by means of entanglement-related particle-beam procedures, alien civilizations could conceivably be observing us without ever leaving home, producing plasma-like "virtual spaceships" seen by some UFO witnesses. The author further remarks that such phenomena being only virtual could account for their being "no hard physical evidence." The problem with this, however, is that there is hard physical evidence, e.g. the debris seen and handled by many Roswell witnesses.
Mason also speculates about quantum teleportation as a possible explanation for the apparent visitations of alien craft (he provides nicely done etchings to illustrate some of these ideas) and about the possibility of a lunar alien outpost of some kind, as perhaps supported in part by recorded conversations of NASA astronauts.
Mason wrestles briefly with the problem that most purported alien contactees describe extraterrestrials as humanoid, even though in terms of evolution this parallel development seems unlikely; he entertains several hypotheses but draws no definite conclusions. He does another thought experiment entertaining the notion of higher spatial dimensions and parallel universes and observing that such systems as superstring theory (as possible bases for other-worldly theories) seem to violate the maxim of Occam's Razor, the principle that the simplest hypothesis is usually the best. (My own view is that Occam's Razor is philosophically over-rated; the truth often turns out to be highly complex.)
The author briefly examines the 1959 sighting case of Rev. William Gill in Papua, New Guinea, noting that the case seems well attested but trying to explain it as a sort of particle-beam hologram, or (more plausibly, he feels) as a sort of image-inversion optical illusion. Here and elsewhere the quantum particle-beam hypothesis looms large, and I would indeed say that there are cases where this is not infeasible. In discussing the Roswell case, though (he unfortunately uses a questionable date--by the best accounts it was 4 July 1947, not 14 June 1947), he argues that the physical crash idea can be resisted on the basis of the UFO's being hologrammatic, but I would point out that it could just as well be the other way around--if the Roswell crash was physical (I have interviewed several people who handled wreckage debris), that could argue strongly that not all UFOs are holograms anyway, which, to be fair, I should mention that the author does not claim outright.
In the end the author straightforwardly admits, as seems only right, that definite conclusions are elusive. While the book has been replete with speculation, Mason has the honest to call it speculation throughout, and overall one feels that while the book's treatment of UFOs leaves them still a mystery, it's because they must be so. The real value of the book is not that it settles any questions, but that it illustrates that a world of hypotheses and speculations must always exist. Some readers may be left feeling that things are too `up for grabs,' but then ultimately they really are. A more serious complaint might be that such cases as the Lonnie Zamora sighting/landing of 24 April 1964 in Socorro, New Mexico absolutely cannot be explained by the `particle beam' or `virtual craft' hypothesis, since physical landing-pod marks were seen and photographed. But this is not to deny that many other cases might be so explained, even though there are a lot of physical trace evidence cases around too.
There are a few errors (e.g. a reference to a "standing sign wave," where the author means "sine") but these are remediable things. The basic approach reflects good respect for scientific thought, while really amounting to a kind of voyage of conceptual exploration for the author, one that invites the reader to make one too.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Science Writer and Astronomer David Darling, Ph.D. reviews THE UFO EXPERIENCE RECONSIDERED by Robert L. Mason
By Evelyn Wilson
The UFO Experience Reconsidered, by Robert Mason, is a sober and refreshing
reassessment of a phenomenon that has intrigued the public for more than half a
century. The book takes as its inspiration and role model, J. Allen Hynek's classic
1972 work on the subject, and reexamines the UFO conundrum in a modern
scientific setting. That people witness unexplained luminous events in the sky and on
the ground, and occasionally much more dramatic happenings, is not seriously in
doubt. Some of these stories may be accounted for by poorly understood natural
phenomena, such as ball lightning or "earthquake lights," which are interesting
enough in themselves. Yet there remains a stubborn residue of perplexing and hard-
to-dismiss cases which challenges science with the possibility that something is going
on of more dramatic origin, possibly extraterrestrial, possibly artificial, and (just)
possibly extraterrestrial and artificial. Robert Mason brings to the table a polymath's
analysis of a topic that continues to intrigue us all.
1 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
Too slim for its subject
By Richard Masloski
This is a tough book to write about. I greatly admire the author's open-minded, theorizing approach to the UFO Experience...but the book is unfortunately just too slim for the subject. Brevity can be beautiful: the Gettysburg Address is a classic example. E=MC2 is another. But when you are dealing with such immense speculations as to the ultimate nature of UFOs, such deep approaches cannot be done full justice in a book of only 116 pages. The result therefore seems to be more of a draft than a final product. Some of the author's insights are quite interesting - UFOs as a virtual reality sent on a beam from another planet...although, I must confess, this (which is a primary notion of the book) is not really all that clearly explained. And because of the author's pushing of this possible explanation of UFOs, he thereby discounts Roswell in the space of 3 pages, positing that because UFOs may be holographically sent to us on particle beams there would thus be no hardware evidence of any crash. The speculation that our sun is a living entity that is likewise perhaps responsible for UFO sightings is extremely intriguing but not developed enough to convince - although I always felt that since we are composed of exploded stars (literal star children) that perhaps suns - and the entire Universe - was a living entity....and that the Big Bang was orgasmic in a feeling, sentient way that echoes down to the fragments of the totality that we are, thereby how poetic that our own orgasms can lead also to birth, just as the Big Bang gave birth to our Universe. I believe that the Universe is structured as much around Poetry as it is around Physics. Anyway - the author details the interesting Father Gill case but totally fails to address the better documented and more inexplicable Betty and Barney Hill case: this is akin to cherry-picking. The Father Gill incident more fully fleshes out his theory of a particle beam, so he would naturally focus on this case and exclude one that doesn't fit the basic theorum offered herein. The same with the overwhelming incidence of daytime sightings and photographs. These do not easily fit the particle beam theme of the gist of the book. There are also a number of New Age etchings and drawings by the author that actually are nice, but belong in another book. Photos of some of the strongest evidence of UFOs would have worked better here. NASA's potential knowledge of alien technology is touched upon in one or two tantalizing paragraphs - and then dropped like a hot potato. Anyway - interesting reading, but not developed to a depth that would truly grip the general reader. But I do applaud the author for being open-minded and coming up with some novel insights as to what UFOs may be all about. So...keep watching the skies!
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