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SUBJECT: SPACE ANIMAL THEORY FILE: UFO2780
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From UFOs and the Limits of Science by Ronald D. Story c.1981
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Reproduced for educational purposes only.
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Space Animal Theory
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The Space Animal Theiry was first brought to public attention,
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curiously enough, by the U.S. Air Force during its Project Sign
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activity in the late 1940s. The Project "Saucer" (Sign was then still a
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classified code name) press release of April 27, 1949, admitted that
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the idea had been "remotely considered" and that many UFOs "acted more
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like animals than anything else." The Air Force concluded that few such
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reports were reliable. The concept was also contained in the final
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Project Sign Technical Report of February 1949 (declassified in 1961).
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Trevor James Constable (writing under the pen name of Trevor James)
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advocated a space animal explanation for UFOs in 1958, and no other
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that Kenneth Arnold, the man whose sighting opened the UFO era and who
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was responsible for coining the label "flying saucer," concluded the
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UFOs "...are groups and masses of living organisms that are as much a
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part of our atmosphere and space as the life we find in the oceans."
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Naturalist Ivan T. Sanderson again addressed the question, and many
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others, in 1967, concluding that there was "...nothing illogical,
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irrational, or even improbable about it. In fact, it is so probable
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that it must be given first rank in consideration of the question,
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'What could UAO's [unexplained aeiral objects] be?'" That same year,
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Vincent H. Gaddis addressed the topic, attributing the original idea to
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a John P. Bessor, who had sent it to the Air Force the month following
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Arnold's classic 1947 sighting. Gaddis discussed the writings on the
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subject by Austrian Countess Zoe Wassilko-Serecki and John Cage, a New
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Jersey inventor, and concluded that "...the time will come when one or
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more of these entities will be caught, weighed, measured, and
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exhibited."
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Trevor James Constable again wrote about space animals in the 1970s,
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this time in more detail. He postulated that the UFO space animals
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"...are amoebalike life-forms existing in the plasma state. They are
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not solid, liquid, or gas. Rather, they exist in the fourth state of
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matter - plasma - as living heat substance at the upper border of
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physical nature." He also believed that they are of low intelligence
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and, because they remain in the infrared part of the electromagnetic
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spectrum, usually invisible. he concluded that they had "...deeply
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confused UFO research."
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Although life may be found in the most unlikely places and under the
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harshest of conditions on the surface of the planet, it is doubtful
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that biological forms could evolve in space or even in the upper
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regions of the atmosphere, where exposure to cosmic rays and other
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radiations, such as those originating from solar flares, would be
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maximized. The absence of oxygen for carbon-based life would also rule
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out biological space animals, and the possibility of life existing in a
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plasma state is, at best, speculative.
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* THE U.F.O. BBS - http://www.ufobbs.com/ufo *
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