An NGO Solution for UFO Study

Maybe the way to nudge the U.S. back into the official business of investigating UFOs is to let someone other than the U.S. government handle it. This trial balloon comes from Ted Roe, executive director of the National Aviation Reporting Center on Anomalous Phenomena. Founded in 2000 by a clique of scientists and aviation experts troubled by UFOs’ potential and demonstrable impact on flight safety, NARCAP has published some impressive analyses to that end, most recently of the Chicago O’Hare case in 2006, at www.narcap.org. Unlike the more rational aviation climates in places like France, England, Peru, Paraguay and Chile, where filing UFO reports isn’t a one-way ticket to the rubber room (probably because their governments make no secret of their ongoing studies), American pilots are less inclined to go on record with what they’ve seen. By necessity, NARCAP has established a track record of preserving pilot confidentiality, but unlike Uncle Sam, it publishes the results of its inquiries.