It is the first time that a scientific journal in the aerospace sector (published in Great Britain since 1961) gives so much space to the UFO issue. And above all, it is the first time that a detailed history of scientific studies on the topic has been published, in the form of a very long article (58 pages, 506 bibliographical notes) entitled “The New Science of Unidentified Aerospace-Undersea Phenomena (UAP)”.
It is signed by an unprecedented international collective of authors, coordinated by Kevin H. Knuth (physics professor at the University of Albany, USA). Among the other 33 co-authors there are various scientists and university researchers who have recently approached our subject, but also quite a few veterans of ufology (for example Richard Haines, Erling Strand and Jacques Vallée) or representatives of the main world organizations: Mark Rodeghier and Mike Swords of CUFOS (Center for UFO Studies), Rich Hoffman and Robert Powell of SCU (Scientific Coalition for UAP Studies), Mike Cifone of SUAPS (Society for UAP Studies), even Frédéric Courtade, director of GEIPAN (the official French ufological organization). It's a pleasure to note that two UAP Check board members (Michaël Vaillant, Edoardo Russo) and a former one (Baptiste Friscourt) are among those.
The full text of the article (and of the others that make up the special issue of Progress in Aerospace Sciences) can be downloaded from the publisher Elsevier's direct link.
