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Freaky Friday: UFOs: the Psychology and the Evidence

Friday, November 5, 2010 17:00
Redpath Museum 859 rue Sherbrooke Ouest, Montreal, QC, H3A 0C4, CA

Two lectures consider the UFO phenomenon as it has evolved from 1947 to the present. Don C. Donderi, the lecturer, is a research psychologist recently retired from 91Ë¿¹ÏÊÓÆµ. He studies human perception and memory. The lectures review the evidence about UFOs and about Close Encounters, where humans interact with humanoids aboard UFOs. Donderi explains why he thinks some UFOs are extra-terrestrial. He discusses the UFO phenomenon and its reception by laymen and scientists from the perspectives of personality psychology and the philosophy of science.

Friday, Nov. 5 --UFOs: the Psychology and the Evidence

Donderi describes the UFO phenomenon, including some personally investigated cases. After summarizing more than sixty years of government and scientific reaction to UFOs, he discusses how the phenomenon itself has evolved since the first widely reported North American sighting in 1947. After considering how UFOs might work, he justifies support for the thesis that some UFOs are extra-terrestrial, and he discusses that idea in the context of modern science. Followed by the recently released 1956 documentary film Unidentified Flying Objects which contains well-known but seldom-seen UFO camera footage.

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