'X' Zone Broadcast Network: Dr. James Horan and the Journal of Scientific Exploration

 

This week I spoke with Dr. James Horan, who is the new editor of the Journal of Scientific Exploration. We had published an article about the Ramey Memo in the Journal in Spring 2002. You can listen to the discussion here:

https://www.spreaker.com/episode/48669630

We did talk about the Ramey Memo and that much could be learned from it. Because it was a document with a known and proven provenance, the legitimacy of

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it was not in question. The photograph shows General Ramey holding the document. We know that J. Bond Johnson took the picture and given that it was transmitted over the INS newswire with a time and date stamp on it, we know the picture was taken on the afternoon of July 8, 1947. I have to laugh because this is so well documented while other documents just show up in mail boxes with no clue as to where they came from and no way to verify the legitimacy of the documents. Just type Ramey Memo into the search engine and you will find a number of articles and discussions about it.

We discussed the experiment we conducted as a way of testing whether or not priming had any influence in the interpretation of the Ramey Memo. For those interested in the experiment, it can be found here, in the Spring 2002 edition of the Journal of Scientific Exploration:

www.scientificexploration.org

And, of course, we had to talk about the beginning of his interest in the Roswell case and the fact that there is no controversy about one aspect of it. Everyone agrees that something fell. It is the identity of the object that is in question. I did mention that the Air Force, in their massive report issued in the middle of the 1990s, pretty well eliminated any explanation other than a Project Mogul balloon. Of course, I, was well as many others, find that explanation lacking any authenticity. There was nothing classified about the balloon launches in New Mexico. It was the ultimate purpose that was classified, but even the name, Mogul, was known to those involved with the project.

All this sort of bypasses the discussion about vetting the witnesses, the difference between anecdotal testimony and scientific observation, and some of the failures of the Roswell witnesses. This wasn’t a way to dismiss the Roswell case, but a way of validating aspects of it.

We wrapped up our discussion with some comments about Avi Loeb’s Galileo Project and the search for alien artifacts. Loeb’s theories, while not universally accepted in the scientific community, have moved the discussion from the realm of the impossible to the realm of learning a new way of finding other intelligent life forms out there.

And, of course, we provided additional information about the Journal and Society for Scientific Exploration.

Next up is Clas Svahn, a Swedish UFO researcher, whose interests expand beyond just the UFO. We’ll talk about his latest book, Files of the Unexplained.