Free PDF: The Reliability Of UFO Witnesses (57 Chapters!)

[Paul_Exeter]

Major new work featuring a re-analysis of Pascagoula, Cash-Landrum, Betty and Barney Hill and more:

"The Reliability of UFO Witness Testimony is a new book edited by Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos and Richard W. Heiden, "the first major book to comprehensively focus on the discussion and current views on problems and challenges posed by the reliability of UFO testimonies.""

"This is a cross-disciplinary compendium of papers by 60 authors from 14 different countries. They are specialists in social, physical, and biological sciences, including psychology (predominantly) as well as psychiatry, sociology, anthropology, history, philosophy, folklore, religion, journalism, engineering, computing, medicine, education, analysts with experience in the critical study of UFO perceivers, and other professionals. This volume shares thematically convergent ideas about the plausibility of alternate explanations for an alleged close-range UFO phenomenon.

The 57 chapters in this book are divided into seven section headings: Case Studies, Psychological Perspectives, On Witness Testimony, Empirical Research, Anthropological Approach, Metrics and Scaling, and Epistemological Issues. "

It is free to download if you sign in with Google but I have yet to read it so will reserve judgement for now

https://www.academia.edu/101922617/The_Reliability_of_UFO_Witness_Testimony

 

[Paul_Exeter]

Major new work featuring a re-analysis of Pascagoula, Cash-Landrum, Betty and Barney Hill and more:

"The Reliability of UFO Witness Testimony is a new book edited by Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos and Richard W. Heiden, "the first major book to comprehensively focus on the discussion and current views on problems and challenges posed by the reliability of UFO testimonies.""

"This is a cross-disciplinary compendium of papers by 60 authors from 14 different countries. They are specialists in social, physical, and biological sciences, including psychology (predominantly) as well as psychiatry, sociology, anthropology, history, philosophy, folklore, religion, journalism, engineering, computing, medicine, education, analysts with experience in the critical study of UFO perceivers, and other professionals. This volume shares thematically convergent ideas about the plausibility of alternate explanations for an alleged close-range UFO phenomenon.

The 57 chapters in this book are divided into seven section headings: Case Studies, Psychological Perspectives, On Witness Testimony, Empirical Research, Anthropological Approach, Metrics and Scaling, and Epistemological Issues. "

It is free to download if you sign in with Google but I have yet to read it so will reserve judgement for now

https://www.academia.edu/101922617/The_Reliability_of_UFO_Witness_Testimony

Okay, went straight to Cash-Landrum. They do quite a good job of bringing into question her injuries but offer little to explain the actual incident other than asking if it ever happened as only the boy reported the diamond shape. Bit unfair given the extreme brightness and the different perspectives and even sightedness of young people and older people.

For me the sheer number of helicopters is a major issue with this case, it would have sounded like Vietnam out there and someone else would have reported hearing that many large helicopters. But of course we don't know if they were in our reality or some sort of dimensional slip. Alternatively, the sheer terror and stress of what they were witnessing with the object led them to lose their sense of objectivity. Personally, I believe they saw the object but that doesn't mean it was of non-human origin

 

[Paul_Exeter]

Okay, went straight to Cash-Landrum. They do quite a good job of bringing into question her injuries but offer little to explain the actual incident other than asking if it ever happened as only the boy reported the diamond shape. Bit unfair given the extreme brightness and the different perspectives and even sightedness of young people and older people.

For me the sheer number of helicopters is a major issue with this case, it would have sounded like Vietnam out there and someone else would have reported hearing that many large helicopters. But of course we don't know if they were in our reality or some sort of dimensional slip. Alternatively, the sheer terror and stress of what they were witnessing with the object led them to lose their sense of objectivity. Personally, I believe they saw the object but that doesn't mean it was of non-human origin

One other point, could a smaller number of helicopters circling the area have led them to mistake them for a larger number i.e. counting them more than once?

In fact, I do not recall I have read any of the witnesses describing the noise from the helicopters, will need to check but does anyone else recall this? Too this end, what was the state of US military drone technology at the time? Is it possible they mistook drones for helicopters at night and in shock?