And look, please let no reader get the silly impression that UFOs have ever followed me or the project field crew around. Absolutely not. There are several factors which have contributed to our success, but that absolutely is not one of them. Persistence has been very important, of course, but another strong factor is that some of my project crew, some members of my family (my wife and two of my three children), and I, learned to cognitively brain-detect the strong ELF magnetic 'signature' of UFO presence, at times nearly as reliably as our automatic recording magnetometer-gravimeter when an ELF signal rises above the turn-on threshold level.

Those of us who have learned to recognize it, call that brain sensation of UFO-generated ELF detection "UFOria", and the phenomenon does indeed make one feel euphoric (i.e., a feeling of happiness, confidence, or well-being)!

Because the ability of the human nervous system to detect magnetic ELF has been clinically demonstrated, I don't think it would be wise for anyone to laugh very openly. The many 'hits' we've recorded in taking instruments out cannot realistically be attributed to chance, alone.

Visual-image recognition helps, too.

If any one of you doubts the latter, come to D.C. for the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History's exhibit opening sometime in the first quarter of next year (2010), that will feature my new dinosaur taxon (a new genus and, thus, of course, a new species), which also happens to be the only nodosaur hatchling ever found anywhere, and Maryland's first (and only, to-date) articulated dinosaur find.  I discovered it while searching out some of the smallest dinosaur tracks and trackways ever discovered anywhere, and unknown to science until I found them in streambeds here within the D.C. Capital Beltway. Some of the tracks may also be in the exhibit.

Perhaps it may be appropriate to close with a sentiment of Marcel Proust:

"The real act of discovery consists not in finding new lands, but in seeing with new eyes."

Whomever you are, thanks for taking time to read the above.

Ray Stanford

This article was originally published here: ourstrangeplanet.com. Used with the kind permission of Ray Stanford. You can email Ray at opus22@verizon.net.

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