BioParity.UFO / UAP research

63 sources for “Research methods”

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PaperS7762

The Hunt for Exomoons with Kepler (HEK): II. Analysis of Seven Viable Satellite-Hosting Planet Candidates

David M. Kipping, Joel Hartman, Lars A. Buchhave, Allan R. Schmitt, Gáspár Á. Bakos, David Nesvorný. arxiv.org. January 9, 2013.

The authors find no compelling exomoon evidence among seven selected Kepler candidates. Archival transit analysis and author-reported2012 stellar spectra support conditional mass limits; physical and predictive checks reject candidate fits. Noise, starspots and model assumptions limit inference. This provides research-method context, with no independent moon or UAP confirmation.

Complete supplied manuscript; original rendition unresolved
PaperS7752

Measuring on Lattices

Kevin H. Knuth. arxiv.org. September 21, 2009.

Knuth develops valuation and inference rules on ordered lattices under stated assumptions. This formal methods paper supplies no empirical UAP observations; proof, normalization and later-rendering issues remain explicit.

Complete supplied thirteen-page manuscript; formal inference framework
BookS7406

Messengers of Deception: UFO Contacts and Cults — reviewed reflow and 2008 scan

Jacques Vallee. archive.org. 2008.

Vallée distinguishes interviews, anonymous insider relays and speculative explanations. A reported base visit and Adamski’s alleged request from unnamed scientists do not authenticate secret programmes. Recantations, alibis and ordinary alternatives remain. His human-stratagem and control-system theories retain explicit shortcomings; reported remote-viewing comparisons lack original data. David Swift’s separate epilogue distinguishes influential beliefs from scientific confirmation and notes unexplained who/how questions.

All 272 supplied scan layouts viewed; book coverage remains qualified
PaperS7754

Deriving laws from ordering relations

Kevin H. Knuth. arxiv.org. March 3, 2004.

Knuth develops formal valuation rules with probability, geometry and quantum examples. The supplied manuscript is fully reviewed; open conditions, prior assignments and external physical constraints remain explicit, with no empirical UAP data or independently authenticated proofs.

Complete supplied32page manuscript; glyph, proof and original-version gaps
PaperS7766

The flux of small near-Earth objects colliding with the Earth

P. Brown, R. E. Spalding, D. O. ReVelle, E. Tagliaferri, S. P. Worden. aquarid.physics.uwo.ca. November 21, 2002.

Brown and colleagues estimate small near-Earth-object flux using bolide observations and conditional optical-energy calibration. Integral luminous efficiency depends on energy and population, assuming a6000K spectrum; fitted6–15% and adopted5–20% ranges qualify a universal10% assumption. The article retains an unusual excluded event and explicit nonendorsement by the US DoD.

Complete supplied three-page text and native layouts; calibration limits
BookS7653

UFOs and the Extraterrestrial Contact Movement, Volume One — selected chapters

George M. Eberhart. cufos.org. 1986.

Eberhart maps literature, light reports, propulsion, radar, encounters, abduction, retrieval, effects, animal and space reports. Moore/Stringfield, Cash–Landrum, Gill and government-interest stories retain attribution and unread originals. Maritime, Tunguska, lunar and early historical interpretations retain ordinary alternatives, fiction and source cautions. J. Gordon Melton signs the religious introduction; psychic hypotheses and public-belief titles are distinct from clinical findings or event proof. Editions, replies, unseen originals and poll-title numbers remain qualified. Bibliography titles establish no alien artifact, secret access or completed original study.

Selected chapters; whole bibliography remains partial
ReportS7684

The Forensic Use of Hypnosis

Martin T. Orne, David F. Dinges, Emily Carota Orne. ojp.gov. December 1984.

Orne, Dinges and Orne’s December 1984 NIJ brief separates confidence and detail from accurate memory, describes risks of suggestion and confabulation, and allows a qualified role for investigative leads while opposing court testimony based on hypnosis. Its safeguards document sessions without guaranteeing accurate recollection. This is a historical review, not a new UFO study or current legal/clinical guidance. Public grant support and agency hosting do not establish a secret programme or agency endorsement of every author conclusion.

Complete supplied NIJ brief text and all six scan layouts
PaperS060

Basic Patterns in UFO Observations

Claude Poher, Jacques Vallée. jacquesvallee.net.

Visibility, duration and geographic patterns are compared across reported UFO observations.

Supplied text and figures reviewed
ArticleS7702

The Six Infrared Dots in a Declassified UAP Video is a Flock of Birds

Avi Loeb. avi-loeb.medium.com.

Loeb reports a coauthored analysis interpreting six infrared dots as birds, using flicker and parallax. His categorical title sits alongside an explicit need for missing telemetry and unredacted footage before conclusive results. This essay concerns the previously discussed six-dot study; its figures, paper and underlying records were not reviewed here. No new private briefing or government approach is reported.

Complete supplied authored essay; figures and underlying records unreviewed
ReportS7705

10 U.S.C. §119 — Special access programs: congressional oversight (2024 Edition)

United States Congress. govinfo.gov.

The 2024 Edition of this oversight provision distinguishes case-specific withholding from supplying information and justification to committee leadership. Its annual-report wording also carries a termination note referring to December 2021. Cross-referenced provisions and later changes have not been collated, so current application remains unverified. This is historical statutory context for programme-access claims, not evidence that a UAP programme existed or anyone obtained access.

Complete returned historical section; current application unreviewed
ReportS7708

NIH RePORTER metadata for 3U19AI100627-09S2

National Institutes of Health. api.reporter.nih.gov.

Official NIH metadata returns two FY2021 application records for 3U19AI100627-09S2, both naming Scripps as recipient and the same amount. Their contact PIs are Garry P. Nolan and Richard J. Ulevitch; Sage appears in neither PI list. Shared identifiers and differing dates do not establish two independent awards or their administrative relationship. The paper’s Sage/Nolan support acknowledgement is preserved as a different fact from registered PI metadata. No classified approach, agency adoption or UAP involvement is established.

Official award metadata only; scientific and award bodies unreviewed

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