Science and the UFO phenomenon:

The following report is written by Dr Richard Haines, a Senior research scientist at NASA Ames and is the flagship report for the 2001 formed National Aviation Reporting Center on Anomalous Phenomena (NARCAP).

Dr. Richard Haines:

Dr Richard Haines, Ph.D., is a Senior research scientist at NASA Ames and has succeeded in founding the 2001 formed National Aviation Reporting Center on Anomalous Phenomena (NARCAP), as a consequence of his paper "Aviation Safety in America: A Previously Neglected Factor".

Three kinds of reported UAP dynamic behavior and reported consequences are addressed in Haines’ report, each of which can affect air safety:

near miss and other high speed maneuvers conducted by the UAP near aircraft,
transient and permanent electromagnetic effects onboard the aircraft that affect navigation, guidance, and flight control systems, and
close encounter flight performance by the UAP that produces cockpit distractions which inhibit the flight crew from flying the airplane in a safe manner.

More than one hundred documented close encounters between UAP and commercial, private, and military airplanes are reviewed relative to these three topics. These reports are drawn from several sources including the author’s personal files, aviation reports prepared by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration administered "Aviation Safety Reporting System (ASRS)."

The publication:

Here is Aviation Safety in America: A Previously Neglected Factor by Richard Haines, Ph.D, in Adobe Acrobat format (PDF File, 287Kb).

You can find further information on the topics of air misses in this website.

This page was last updated on April 21, 2001.