Here is a question that will become increasingly important in
the coming years. When does anecdotal testimony become
scientific observation? Or conversely, when does scientific
observation deteriorate into anecdotal testimony? We have been
gathering data in the UFO field for decades (I’m not sure when a
real effort began because we have divided everything into
periods... The Great Airship of 1897, the Foo Fighters of WW II
and the Ghost Rockets in Europe in 1946.) During some of those
periods serious scientific investigations were attempted. The
Foo Fighters were of intelligence interest during the war and
were taken quite seriously by the military according to the good
work done by Keith Chester. The Ghost Rockets were investigated
by Lieutenant General Jimmy Doolittle in 1946, and the Air Force
began a serious look at UFOs in 1948. We have seen, in
scientific enquiry where what would be considered in our world
as anecdotal testimony has become scientific observation. Back
in 1803, French naturalist, Jean-Ba