Word: nasa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Northeast many of the reports have been triggered by glowing appearances of Jupiter, the largest and brightest planet in the region's night sky. Another spur to UFO sightings may have been the news that the Administration tried, unsuccessfully, to get NASA to open a UFO investigation. Had Jimmy Carter fallen under the Close Encounters spell? Not at all. The White House, weary of having to deal with its own heavy load of UFO mail, was just trying to pass the buck...
...talk about Jesus Christ because science had pretty well told us that it was impossible to believe in God and the Bible." An increasing number of scientists would now appear to agree with the almost Pascalian argument of Astronomer Robert Jastrow, founder and director of NASA'S Goddard Institute. Since it is impossible to prove whether life on earth was created by the will of some supreme £ creative being, or evolved spontaneously, says Jastrow, the choice either way is "an act of faith." Even among highly secular folk there is a general disposition to assume, as never before, that...
...childhood as an indelible, immutable badge of mental prowess or dullness. Instead, the whole IQ concept is under suspicion. Many school systems, including those in California and New York City, have abandoned IQ testing altogether. College admissions officers have little use for them. Neither do such competitive organizations as NASA, IBM or Phi Beta Kappa...
...there were any secrets about the UFOs he would flush them out, if elected. Carter reported in 1973, while Governor of Georgia, that several years earlier he had seen a UFO in the form of a "glowing light" in the night sky. Now the White House has asked NASA to look at the saucer data collected through the years by the Air Force and others and to decide whether yet another investigation of the overinvestigated UFOs is in order...
...rewritten and expanded his attack on Velikovsky for publication in the new book, Scientists Confront Velikovsky. In addition to Sagan's remarks and the transcribed speeches of three other AAAS symposium participants--a sociologist, a statistician, and another astronomer--the collection contains a fresh treatment of Velikovsky by a NASA astronomer. The fact that Velikovsky's contribution--which along with Sagan's speech highlighted the meeting--is missing from the book is at first surprising. However, examination of the history of the Velikovsky controversy and of the publishers' unpublished correspondence with him makes the absence of Velikovsky's participation...