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UFO Update: Ask Chris Rutkowski

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When it comes to UFO researchers, Chris Rutkowski is a class act.

He returns this week to The Paracast for a 2015 UFO update, his reaction to Hilary Clinton's promise to look into UFOs, the "new" Ufology and other hot topics in the field.

Says his bio: “Chris Rutkowski, BSc, MEd, is a Canadian science writer and educator, with a background in astronomy but with a passion for teaching science concepts to children and adults. Since the mid-1970s, he also has been studying reports of UFOs and writing about his investigations and research.”
 
  1. I know total sightings are going up in Canada (presumably in the world as well), but are CE-3 sightings going up or down? Where are the lavender picking ground digging "aliens"?

  2. What's the benefit in collecting reports without proper means to analyze their validity? Are data mining algorithms being applied to report data elements to find a pattern to aid in predicting future events?
 
Re: "Seven Maxims of UFOs" of Dr. Peter Millman

Do you think Dr. Millman devised his "seven maxims" so broadly as to eliminate the possibility of reporting an actual unidentified object?

Have you, or anyone else, revisited the data collected by the National Research Council of Canada to see if Millman's "seven maxims" actually do eliminate all those UFO reports from being scientifically interesting as he argued? Is there a 5 to 20 percent of reports that demonstrate an unexplainable discrepancy that ought to be interesting to science?

In 1975 Vera Rubin published work on red shift in spiral galaxies that revealed a discrepancy in the motion of spiral arms -- the point being that Rubin's work ultimately caused skeptical science to believe in something not seen, "dark matter." Do you see any corollary to this as regards the residue of UFO cases that cannot be explained? Is there a possibility that "big science" will eventually recognize an effect and conclude there is a yet unknown cause to UFO phenomena?
 
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Chris,

Can you explain exactly what the "UFO Detection Center" was that Wilbert Smith had set up on supposed government property? How long was it in operation & did it actually detect any true unidentified flying objects? How long was it around for and how/why did it dissolve? Thank you.
 
What is your opinion of the "The Kaikoura lights"incident over the East Coast of the South Island of New Zealand (December 1978).
What do you think of the film footage and the incident over all?

For those who do not know of this here is some background:

The Kaikoura lights is a name given by the New Zealand media to a series of sightings that occurred in December 1978, over the skies above the Kaikoura mountain ranges in the northeast of New Zealand's South Island. The first sightings were made on 21 December when the crew of a Safe Air Ltd cargo aircraft began observing a series of strange lights around their Armstrong Whitworth AW.660 Argosy aircraft, which tracked along with their aircraft for several minutes before disappearing and then reappearing elsewhere, the UFO was very large and had five white flashing lights that were visible on the craft. Some people say that they could see some little disks drop from the UFO and then disappear (they were never found). The pilots described some of the lights to be the size of a house and others small but flashing brilliantly. These objects appeared on the air traffic controller radar in Wellington and also on the aircraft's on-board radar.

On 30 December 1978, a television crew from Australia recorded background film for a network show of interviews about the sightings. For many minutes at a time on the flight to Christchurch, unidentified lights were observed by five people on the flight deck, were tracked by Wellington Air Traffic Controllers, and filmed in color by the television crew. One object reportedly followed the aircraft almost until landing. The cargo plane then took off again with the television crew still on board, heading for Blenheim. When the aircraft reached about 2000 feet, it encountered a gigantic lighted orb [1] which fell into station off the wing tip and tracked along with the cargo aircraft for almost quarter of an hour, while being filmed, watched, tracked on the aircraft radar and described on a tape recording made by the TV film crew.

A spate of sightings followed the initial report and an Air Force Skyhawk was put on stand-by to investigate any positive sightings.[2]

Kaikoura lights - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Name pronunciation for Kaikoura is: K (hard C sound as in cool), ai (an "I" sound like sky), K (hard C sound again), ou (long "O" sound like "oh"), ra (RA as in the sun god).
 
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