Unidentified flying object/Related Articles

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Parent topics

• Aerospace surveillance [r]: Add brief definition or description
  • Air traffic control [r]: Add brief definition or description
  • Integrated air defense system [r]: Add brief definition or description
  • Space surveillance [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Extraterrestrial intelligence [r]: Intelligent life that did not originate on the planet Earth ^[e]

Subtopics

• Mutual UFO Network [r]: A nonprofit corporation, founded in 1969 and operated by volunteers, with a mission of "resolving the scientific enigma known collectively as unidentified flying objects (UFOs)" ^[e]
• John E. Mack [r]: Psychiatrist and former psychiatry professor at Harvard University; winner of the Pulitzer Prize in biography; researcher in unidentified flying objects and alien abduction ^[e]
• Mark Rodeghier [r]: Head of the Center for UFO Research, with graduate training as a sociologist; his dissertation examined attitudes toward research on extraterrestrial intelligence ^[e]
• Jacques Vallée [r]: French-born astronomer and ufologist now working in the US ^[e]
• Peter Sturrock [r]: Emeritus professor of physics at Stanford University, heading a solar physics research group; past president of the Society of Scientific Exploration and headed a 1997 study on physical evidence from unidentified flying objects ^[e]

Other related topics

• Transpersonal psychology [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Cognitive psychology [r]: The branch of cognitive science that deals with human mental processes involved in thinking, feeling and behaving. ^[e]

Tracking and identifying

• Radar [r]: Acronym for "radio detection and ranging"; a system used to locate a distant object by transmission of radio waves and reception of their reflection. ^[e]
• Electro-optical tracking [r]: The use of electronics, possibly in combination with mechanical positioning systems, to aim an optical system at a source of infrared, visible, or ultraviolet light, and follow it for purposes of observation or weapons guidance ^[e]
• Photography [r]: Art and science of capturing an image on a light sensitive material. ^[e]
• Spectrometry [r]: Spectroscopy is the study of interaction of electromagnetic radiation with matter in those cases where the interaction causes transitions between the allowed states of matter. Spectrometry is the quantitative measurement of spectroscopic signal amplitudes. Light scattering also involves interaction of electromagnetic radiation with matter, however, in light scattering the energy of the electromagnetic field is NOT absorbed by matter (it is scattered). ^[e]
• Electro-optical MASINT [r]: Add brief definition or description