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SUBJECT: UFOs and the Limits of Science FILE: UFO2715
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by Ronald D. Story c.1981
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Reproduced for educational purposes
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Perhaps the most ingenious of all, the original Hollow Earth Theory was
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advanced by several writers in the nineteenth century, but was later
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linked to UFOs and popularized by Ray Palmer and Dr. Raymond Bernard.
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In the early 1960s, Bernard claimed that Earth was actually a hollow
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sphere, with two openings at the poles, and that flying saucers
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belonged to a secret civilizations living inside Earth. The theory
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supposedly gained support from observations made during Admiral Richard
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E, Byrd's arctic and antarctic expeditions. However, Dr. Laurence M.
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Gould, a distinguished University of Arizona geologist and second in
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command during the late admiral's first antartic expedition, denies any
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such observations or discoveries. He recently informed my associate, J.
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Richard Greenwall, that he discussed the matter with Admiral Byrd
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several times prior to the admiral's death in 1957, and both were
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amazed at the observations attributed to them. When he was president of
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the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1953,
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Dr. Gould considered but finally declined an invitation to address the
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Hollow Earth Society, then meeting in Tucson, and believes that, had he
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accepted the invitation, it would have been promoted endlessly as an
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endorsement of the Hollow Earth Theory.
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The Hollow Earth Theory was examined in 1970 by Dr. John S. Derr, a
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professional seismologist, then working on the Viking Mars lander
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project with Martin Marrieta Corporation and now with the U.S.
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Geological Survey. Dr. Derr discussed several types of geodetic and
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seismological data which clearly demonstrated that Earth is not, and
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cannot be, hollow. Artificial satellite perturbations, for example,
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show not only that Earth is solid, but also that its mass is
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concentrated toward its center, contrary to the idea "predicted" by the
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Hollow Earth Theory. He also presented seismological data concerning
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the free oscillations of Earth and the velocity of compressional and
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shear waves in earth following earthquakes.
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Dr. Derr's analysis, plus other less sophisticated but more obvious
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evidence (such as the fact that numerous U.S. and Soviet satellites,
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which continually fly over the poles, have not photographed any
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openings) leaves little doubt that UFOs, whatever they are, do not
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originate from a civilization in a hollow Earth.
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