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...there are still more severe side effects of the Nixon years. The golden days of UFO scares in little California towns are gone. Occasionally a local newspaper will print one housewife's account of how she met the flaming creatures from the sun, but our fears have been relocated. Perhaps the massive 800 page Condon report dealt the death blow to the boom. At any rate, we gaze into the night sky with unaccustomed security these days. The cities hold more dangers in store for the timid...
...Especially relevant to the UFO sightings," he said, "are the often vivid mental images which occur when drowsiness and fatigue begin to overcome us and yet we remain awake...
Grinspoon said last night that there are many other explanations of the UFO sightings, but that he considered the extra-terrestrial life explanation "absurd"-not because such life does not exist, but because of the technological difficulties involved in travelling such enormous distances...
Grinspoon was one of seven speakers participating in a panel discussion on UFO's held at the conference...
...study of UFO's, Grinspoon said, generated an "inordinate amount of affective heat in which mature scientists accused each other of publicity-seeking, deceiving the public, stealing documents, and in other ways being dishonest. "It was not even possible to organize this panel without arousing considerable passion," he pointed...