The First Scientific UFO Field Study 2

UFOs were big news in 1973. Besides the Pascagoula and
the Coyne incidents, there were flaps all over the United
States. One in Piedmont, Missouri, got started that year in late
February with UFO reports involving cars stalling and radio
interference. These caught the attention of a physics professor,
Harley D. Rutledge, who was chairman of that department at
Southeast Missouri State University at Cape Girardeau. Rutledge
became fascinated to the point that he put together an
investigation team of scientists, arranged funding, and ended up
spending more than seven years observing unexplained lights while
collecting data and photographs. In late 1973, he gave a
presentation of what he and the group had gathered up to that point
at the fall meeting (attended by John Schuessler of the Mutual UFO
Network) of the Missouri section of the American Association of
Physics Teachers. Rutledge finally published
a book describing the investigation titled Project
Identification: The First Scientific Field Study of UFO
Phenomena in 1981. Read more