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- Date: 10-02-90 00:43
- From: Sandy Barbre
- Subj: Omni 1990 - October
-
- The following is a short article taken from the October 1990
- article from Omni: Titled: Missouri Lights
- By : Paul McCarthy
-
- Back in the seventies physicist Harley Ruthledge of
- Southeeast Missouri State Univ. investigated UFO's doing
- much of the fieldwork himself. He even published a book
- about his findings in 1981.
- Enter neuroscientist Michael Persinger of Laurentian
- University in Ontario, Canada. Persinger believes that
- UFO's can be explained by earthquake activity, which, he
- says, releases energy in the form of balls of light. After
- exhuming 72 of Rutledge's old UFO reports, Persinger now
- says they prove his theory correct. Indeed, says Persinger,
- when he put Rutledge's data to the test, he found that many
- of the sightings -20 percent in one cluster and 55% in
- another- occured on the day of or on the day before, major
- seismic activity in the area.
- Rutledge doesn't feel these numbers prove Persinger's
- theory at all.
- "If you make the right statistical adjustments," he says,
- "you can find a relationship between nearly any two sets of
- data. I saw the vehicles," he adds, "and they were
- intelligently controlled."
- Unfazed, Persinger says that "many experiments in
- psychology show that what people see is a function of their
- personality and beliefs.