The New Science of the UFO

As readers of my previous works on UFOs (i.e., Secrets of UFO Technology and The How and Why of UFOs) will realize, I tend to favor a strictly materialistic approach to rationalizing the various observations made in the many reliable UFO cases on record. Specifically, I favor and promote the ETH or “Extraterrestrial Hypothesis” as the one that best accounts for the data that we have accumulated about this phenomenon during the last 60 years or so. What most of my readers do not know, however, is that the previous two works of mine drew from an earlier source, a privately published scientific journal that I produced between January 1985 and October 1994 which was called “Annals of Ufological Research Advances” or “AURA” for short. That journal allowed me, for about a decade, to present some of my best research into such topics as UFO construction, their propulsion systems, and the associated side effects of these on both their environments and any human witnesses in those environments. The journal’s articles were intended to be technical in nature so that I could demonstrate that there were actual answers to the UFO mystery that made sense both in terms of our currently accepted physical laws and a few hypothesized laws which, I believe, will eventually be included in this century’s textbooks. While AURA tended to be very positively received by the UFO community of its day, the sad fact was that it was a very low volume publication that only produced about 100 copies quarterly. Approximately one third of each issue’s copies were automatically sent gratis to various UFO research groups and independent scholars studying and investigating cases on their own while the remainder was sold off to general readers with an interest in obtaining information about the subject that they were not getting anywhere else. The small trickle of income each issue of AURA provided was just about enough to cover the cost of the next issue’s printing. Over the years after publication ceased in 1994, I have received various letters and emails from readers who would inquire about the availability of certain of AURA’s issues. Often, they would need a few of the 24 issues to complete a set that they had and, on rare occasion, I would receive a request for the entire collection! In the former case, I would supply photostatic copies of the pages of the missing issues a person needed, but, in the latter cases, I could only tell the person to be patient and that I would eventually be reprinting all of the issues in a book format. Well, that time is now and that is the reason for the volume you are currently holding. This book provides a complete scanned copy of all 24 of the original issues of AURA for those that currently have partially complete sets and for a new generation of ufologists to study who may be unfamiliar with the journal.