Steve
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It was lozenge-shaped. It was about, I don't know, 30 feet. Like a Tic Tac? Yeah, similar. What color? I don't recall that a color was specified offhand. But I have to say, there you go. That was a tough one. All right, we got it.
You see, what I'm pretty sure you're looking at is the airplane itself.
You see, what I'm pretty sure you're looking at is the airplane itself.
You see, what I'm pretty sure you're looking at is the airplane itself.
That's the guy with the smoke. When I have reviewed the videotapes, I have reviewed the photograph, it's not at all clear to me that a UFO actually showed up. But I've also interviewed the witnesses who insist that it did. So... And it's a little more peculiar in terms of understanding what actually happened. But Ted Owens, there it is right on the fly page.
That's the guy with the smoke. When I have reviewed the videotapes, I have reviewed the photograph, it's not at all clear to me that a UFO actually showed up. But I've also interviewed the witnesses who insist that it did. So... And it's a little more peculiar in terms of understanding what actually happened. But Ted Owens, there it is right on the fly page.
That's the guy with the smoke. When I have reviewed the videotapes, I have reviewed the photograph, it's not at all clear to me that a UFO actually showed up. But I've also interviewed the witnesses who insist that it did. So... And it's a little more peculiar in terms of understanding what actually happened. But Ted Owens, there it is right on the fly page.
No, but what I did attempt to do, because I had very little time, I said, can you do this for me? And he said, yes, starting now for the next 90 days, I'm going to do this. So I thought I'd try to create a control group.
No, but what I did attempt to do, because I had very little time, I said, can you do this for me? And he said, yes, starting now for the next 90 days, I'm going to do this. So I thought I'd try to create a control group.
No, but what I did attempt to do, because I had very little time, I said, can you do this for me? And he said, yes, starting now for the next 90 days, I'm going to do this. So I thought I'd try to create a control group.
Because I had no idea how many UFOs would appear online. And any 90-day window within 100 miles of San Francisco. So I took San Diego, which is a city of similar size on the West Coast and similar social environment. And I had friends who were students in the physics department there. And what I did to test, I sent letters out to all the law enforcement agencies within 100 miles of San Francisco.
Because I had no idea how many UFOs would appear online. And any 90-day window within 100 miles of San Francisco. So I took San Diego, which is a city of similar size on the West Coast and similar social environment. And I had friends who were students in the physics department there. And what I did to test, I sent letters out to all the law enforcement agencies within 100 miles of San Francisco.
Because I had no idea how many UFOs would appear online. And any 90-day window within 100 miles of San Francisco. So I took San Diego, which is a city of similar size on the West Coast and similar social environment. And I had friends who were students in the physics department there. And what I did to test, I sent letters out to all the law enforcement agencies within 100 miles of San Francisco.
I had the San Diego people send letters out to all the law enforcement agencies within 100 miles of San Diego as a way of comparing. We actually didn't get three sightings. As Owens had promised, we got two in the San Francisco Bay Area. In San Diego, they got none. So, you know, it was a semblance of trying to impose as many scientific controls as possible.
I had the San Diego people send letters out to all the law enforcement agencies within 100 miles of San Diego as a way of comparing. We actually didn't get three sightings. As Owens had promised, we got two in the San Francisco Bay Area. In San Diego, they got none. So, you know, it was a semblance of trying to impose as many scientific controls as possible.
I had the San Diego people send letters out to all the law enforcement agencies within 100 miles of San Diego as a way of comparing. We actually didn't get three sightings. As Owens had promised, we got two in the San Francisco Bay Area. In San Diego, they got none. So, you know, it was a semblance of trying to impose as many scientific controls as possible.
But when you're dealing with a character like Ted Owens, it's usually not possible because he – liked to see himself, he called it the Owens effect. He hoped people would use that like the Geller effect for bending spoons. But his idea was that just as you can bend a spoon with your mind, you can affect large-scale systems.
But when you're dealing with a character like Ted Owens, it's usually not possible because he – liked to see himself, he called it the Owens effect. He hoped people would use that like the Geller effect for bending spoons. But his idea was that just as you can bend a spoon with your mind, you can affect large-scale systems.
But when you're dealing with a character like Ted Owens, it's usually not possible because he – liked to see himself, he called it the Owens effect. He hoped people would use that like the Geller effect for bending spoons. But his idea was that just as you can bend a spoon with your mind, you can affect large-scale systems.
So he tended to focus in on droughts, on UFOs, on power blackouts, hurricanes, tornadoes, heat and cold spells, large-scale systems. They're very difficult to evaluate statistically. It's not like a clean laboratory experiment.