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Lecture

Ian Ridpath: UFOs: Fact or fantasy?


12 Jan 2016, 6:00pm - 7:30pm

LG01, Professor Stuart Hall Building. Now known as the Professor Stuart Hall Building.

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Cost Free
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Website APRU Invited Speaker Programme
Contact c.french(@gold.ac.uk)
02079197882

Abstract
According to one estimate, around 100 UFOs are sighted worldwide every 24 hours – that’s one every 15 minutes. What’s causing all these reports? Are they, as believers claim, evidence that we are being visited by aliens from other planets? Or is there a more prosaic explanation? This hard-hitting talk by Ian Ridpath, astronomy writer and UFO sceptic, traces the growth of the flying saucer myth since the first sighting in 1947, and demonstrates some of the most common causes of UFO reports. The talk will discuss the implications of formerly top-secret government documents released under the Freedom of Information Act, and will end with Ian’s first-hand account of his own research into the Rendlesham Forest incident, a major event outside a US Air Force base at Woodbridge in Suffolk, still widely regarded as among the best UFO cases ever.

Biography
Ian Ridpath is a writer, editor, and long-time UFO skeptic. As an amateur astronomer, he is particularly interested in the way that celestial objects are misperceived as UFOs. He is probably best known for investigating and solving the Rendlesham Forest UFO case, sometimes termed Britain’s Roswell, which will form part of his talk.

APRU Invited Speaker Programme

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12 Jan 2016 6:00pm - 7:30pm
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