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| Roberto FARABONE | Editorial | 1 |
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| | Scope and Purpose | 3-8 |
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| | Instructions to Authors | 4-8 |
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| | GATHERING and PROCESSING of DATA |
| Miguel GUASP | Essay on the Possible Correlazion Between the Geographical Distribution and the Directions of UFOs Based on the Spanish Wave of 1968-1969 | 13-34 |
| | Abstract: A study of the frequency of occurrences and distribution of the flight directions of UFOs during the Spanish wave of 1968-1969 shows that, when the three parameters of direction, course, and frequency of occurrence of said direction, are considered as vectors, the resultant sum of these vectors indicates precisely the centers of maximum UFO information: that of aerial observations (NE Spain), when considering the directions in which the objects were seen to appear; and that of Type I cases (SW Spain), when considering the directions in which they where seen to disappear.
Some subsequent considerations show that the line which joins both centers of information, NE-SW, seems to play an important part in the development of the geographical location of the sightings of the wave. |
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| | PSYCHOLOGICAL and PERCEPTIVE ASPECTS |
| Richard F. HAINES | UFO Apparence Recognition and Identification Test Procedure | 39-54 |
| Leo R. SPRINKLE | UFO Activity: Cosmic Consciousness Conditioning? | 55-62 |
| | Abstract: This paper describes a possible approach to the study of UFO reports: a tentative set of hypotheses which may explains the 'physical', 'biological', 'psycho-social', and 'spiritual' implications of UFO phenomena. UFO reports are considered in light of the hypothesis that the UFO experience tends to increase the level of cosmic consciousness of the UFO witness. Also, the emerging pattern of UFO reports is compared with the views of persons who claims to have obtained prophetic visions of events which are to occur during the next twenty-five years. |
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| | EPISTEMOLOGY of the RESEARCH |
| Ernst BERGER | Are UFOs Poisson-Distribuited? | 65-71 |
| | Abstract: This paper introduces a new concept in the study of UFO waves. Little has been done with the abundant wave data of the past. The POISSON distribution, a statistical distribution for random and rare occurrences, is explained and applied to the author's data on the 1954 fall wave at Austria. It is shown that the 94 cases reported in the 12 week-period are not related in a casual sense and therefore no 'outside driving force', but a heavy publicistic amplification effect on the reporting of new cases is likely to have produced the 'wave' structure. As the POISSON concept may shake several other 'wave' structures at closer examination, general effects of this Austrian result and possible further tests on the validity of the concept are discussed. |
| Roberto DORETTI, Roberto FARABONE | A Statistical Approach to the UFO Basic Data for the Institution of an "Recognition Filter" | 72-105 |
| | Abstract: This paper aims to show a new statistical method to process data interesting UFO research. Mainly it is shown how one can gather data referring to the same set of phenomena or similar type objects, out of the spread-out group of UFO reports. All this will be obtained through the analysis of statistical relations shown by the different sets of data under quantitative aspects through the analysis of correlation coefficients among one sight and the other ones. After a theoretical explanation we will present an easy example which may show in practice to implement such a research. Anyway this example refers to a real situation, even if the set of data is not a very large one, but which is a typical and frequent case. The most important conclusion drawn which appears from this numerical set, the 'filter', in fact allows to recognize the phenomenon besides imprecision and randomness of the gathered data. |
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| | Call for Papers | 107 |
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| | Letters to the Editors |
| Frank B. SALISBURY | Biology and CE III: Raising the Debate | 109-110 |
| Roberto FARABONE | The Problem of Terminology | 110-111 |
| | UFO Research in Italy | 111-112 |
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| | Book Reviews |
| Michael L. BROYLES | Ufology | 113-114 |
| | Writing Scientific Papers in English | 114-115 |
| Michael L. BROYLES | Quarter Century Studies of UFO's in Florida North Carolina and Tennessee | 115 |
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| | Periodical Publications in UFO Area | 116 |
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| Francesco IZZO | State of Art? | 117-118 |
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| | Acknowledgements | 118 |
