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Orbs, blobs, and glows: astronauts, UFOs, and photography
Art Journal, Fall, 2003 by Jane D. Marsching
(1.) You can read and even listen to this transcript or hear an audio recording at many different websites, such as: http://www.anomalous-images. com/astroufo.html.
(2.) Jacques Vallee's 1966 UFO classification system includes the cigar shaped object as one of the primary UFO shapes. Vallee is the renowned UFO authority featured in Steven Spielberg's film Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
(3.) Barton C. Racker and James N. Grimwood. On the Shoulders of Titans: A History of Project Gemini, NASA Special Publication-4203 (NASA History Series, 1977), avail. online at http://www.hq.nasa. gov/office/pao/History/SP-4203/toc.htm.
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(4.) Nicholas M. Short, Remote Sensing and Image Interpretation & Analysis. ed. Jon W. Robinson (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. 1997), an online tutorial at http://mercator.upc.es/ tutorial/nicktutor_12-I.html.
(5.) Laura M. Andre. "Lunar Nation: The Moon and American Visual Culture, 1957-1972" (Diss., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2002), 8, 32.
(6.) Louis Kaplan. The Damned Universe of Charles Fort (New York: Autonomedia, 1993), 57.
(7.) P. A. Sturrock et al., "Physical Evidence Related to UFO Reports," Journal of Scientific Exploration 12, no. 2 (1998): 179, avail. online at http:// www.scientificexploration.org/jse/articles/ ufo_reports/sturrock/toc.html. See particularly Appendix 2, F. Louange. "Procedures for Analysis of Photographic Evidence."
(8.) The Wilbert B. Smith Web Page. http:// www.geocities.com/Area51/Nebula/5924.
(9.) Birenda Denzler, The Lure of the Edge: Scientific Passions, Religious Beliefs, and the Pursuit of UFOs (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001), 6.
(10.) Kaplan, 104.
(11.) The Roper Poll, "UFOs & Extraterrestrial Life, Americans' Beliefs and Personal Experiences" (The Sci Fi Channel, 2002). Avail. online at http://www.scifi.com/ufo/roper/05.html.
(12.) Eamon M. Kelly et al., "Science and Technology: Public Attitudes and Public Understanding/Science Fiction and Pseudoscience," in Science and Engineering Indicators 2002 (National Science Board, 2002). Avail. online at http://www.nsf. gov/sbe/srs/seind02/c7/c7s5.htm#top.
(13.) NASA/Space Telescope Science Institute's Office of Public Outreach. "Pillars of Creation in a Star-Forming Region (Gas Pillars in M16--Eagle Nebula)," press release, 1995, avail, online at http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/ 1995/44/image/a.
(14.) Steve Dewey and John Ries, "Seeing Things," chapter 6 of Deconstructing Warminster, 1998-2002 draft manuscript, avail, online at http://www.stevedewey.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/ ufo/psych_u.htm.
(15.) Fabrizio Smeraldi, "The Saccadic Search Home Page," 1999, at http://diwww.epfl. ch/lami/team/smeraldi/saccadic/saccadic.html.
(16.) See Barbara Maria Stafford, Visual Analogy: Consciousness as the Art of Connecting (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2001).
Jane D. Marsching is a photography/new-media artist working with issues of belief in culture.
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