Concerning Physical Studies Of Anomalous Aerial Objects (AAOs)By Ray Stanford 
Founder & Director, Organization for Physical UFO Science, College Park, Maryland, USA
Only
upon being told by the Bergstrom AFB command post, that the object was not
identifiable as an aircraft, did I try to aim the laser
in the object's direction. The photo image of the laser strike
suggests to some the possibility that the object might have actually detected
the laser beam sweeping in its direction and created some type of
protective-diffusive effect around it. Why that possible
interpretation? It's because the reflection where the beam struck the
AAO seems more spread-out than would be expected from the narrow
beam, even if it were hitting a spherical, mirror-like surface. Perhaps the
object deliberately exuded some light-diffusive material, such as water
vapor, to scatter any laser light arriving in its vicinity.
Have a look for
yourself, but please don't reproduce the image without specific permission
from me:
Admittedly that photo
has nothing to offer physics concerning UFO propulsion. We would
only begin to record very important propulsion-diagnostic film in late
1977, but I present the photo collage here just to show that my
project was very seriously active at instrumented UFO studies back then, and as
a token of the exciting fun we were occasionally having over two years before
evidence caused us to go into very serious and rather quiet, multi-decade
field-work and results analysis. All serious science aside for a
moment, it amuses me to think that the photo might qualify for
the Guiness Book of World Records, because it is well-documented,
was evidently a world's first, and may still be a 'world's only'
non-government photo of a laser striking what the project and even the
Bergstrom USAF command post realized was a flying object
that neither facility could identify. Our goal has never been Guiness,
however.
To some of you, the
photo may prove I'm a very foolish risk taker. My response is,
"Nothing ventured, nothing gained." Then, too, the project
was thinking ahead. That's why during UFO/VECTOR use, our crew always wore
white jumpsuits and the UFO/VECTOR operator (in that historic case, me), and
those immediately around him, wore green laser goggles. :)
The photo below shows
part of the Optical Equipment Facility (Housed in a small, roll-back-roof
building.) and the UFO/VECTOR unit, in better light. That's John Palin (no kin
of the famous moose killer) using the UFO/VECTOR joystick to aim the system by
watching the sky image provided by the video camera while looking at
a video monitor. In the background at camera station # 1, Al Moulton talks via
protected, underground lines, to the other two camera stations, each about 800
feet apart. That's me at lower-right, checking on the eight-channel chart
recorder.
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