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| He was one of the leading astronomers of his era, and also earned notoriety as an early skeptic of UFOs as an extraordinary phenomenon.Criticism of Menzel's UFO research
2.Menzel's 1949 UFO Sighting
2.At 16 years old, Menzel enrolled at the University of Colorado to study chemistry.However, observing a solar eclipse in 1918 led him to change his course of study to astronomy.Menzel studied at the University of Denver and received his Ph.He worked at Lick Observatory until 1932 when he accepted a position at Harvard.From 1964 to his death, Menzel was a U.He began teaching at Harvard in 1932, and earned full professorship in 1938; in 1952 he was appointed acting director of the Harvard Observatory, and was the full director from 1954 to 1966, when the observatory became an international center of radio astronomy.Menzel initially performed solar research, but later concentrated on studying gaseous nebulae.He wrote A Field Guide to the Stars and Planets, part of the Peterson Field Guides.In 1968, Menzel testified before the U.Symposium on UFOs, stating that he considered all UFO sightings to have natural explanations.He was perhaps the first prominent scientist to offer his opinion on the matter, and his stature doubtless influenced the mainstream and academic response to the subject.Menzel certainly had the technical background to evaluate such data.Criticism of Menzel's UFO research
Some observers have argued that Menzel's UFO works are lacking.Atmospheric physicist and UFO researcher James E.McDonald used the word "Menzelian" to describe the astronomer's approach to UFOs (which McDonald judged inadequate, dismissive and superficial).Criticism also came from many scientists associated with the U.Air Force: Captain Edward J.Menzel, writing in Time, Look, and later in his Flying Saucers, claimed that all UFO reports could be explained as various types of light phenomena.We studied this theory thoroughly because it did seem to have merit.Project Bear's physicists studied it.ATIC's scientific consultants studied it and discussed it with several leading European physicists whose specialty was atmospheric physics.Menzel's critics also report that his UFO theories were literally laughable.Jacques Vallee recorded in his diary a story related to him by astronomer and Committee consultant J.Menzel's speeches that she fell from her chair and landed flat on her back on the restaurant floor.Condon, from laughing openly in his face.Westrum, 35)
Though most of Menzel's harshest critcs were UFO researchers, negative criticism came from other fields: in 1959, prominent psychologist Carl Jung declared that Menzel "has not succeeded, despite all his efforts, in offering a satisfying explanation of even one authentic UFO report."Air Force analysis, which stated:
It is easy to show that the "air lenses" and "strong inversions" postulated by Gordon and Menzel, among others, would need temperatures of several thousand kelvins in order to cause the mirages attributed to them.Menzel's 1949 UFO Sighting
However, Menzel's involvement in the phenomenon can be traced to a UFO encounter he reported to the U.Menzel's eyeglasses or the car's windows.He watched the lights for about four minutes before one of them suddenly seemed to vanish.But just as he was speaking, the second light vanished as well.Ultimately, he regarded the sighting as quite perplexing.Clark, 388)
Menzel revisited the sighting in his first UFO book, Flying Saucers: (1953), and suggested that while he could not "explain the phenomenon in every detail" it was probably "merely a reflection of the moon" which had been "distorted by a layer of haze".He might see the moon reflected in the bow wave thrown up by the boat.Clark, 388)
However, Menzel's later account differs from his first in a few critical ways:
His first report stated that he objects vanished suddenly: first one, then the other a few moments later.Menzel wrote that they were the same size as the full moon.The fact that Menzel had security clearance and worked with the U.Air Technical Intelligence Center."UFO study group established in 1947 which allegedly included Menzel in its membership.Friedman then concluded that Menzel's shoddy "debunking" had not been "bad science", but a deliberate attempt to reduce public and professional interest in UFOs.Friedman's interpretation of Menzel's security clearance is in the minority.This report was publicly unknown for nearly three decades, before being found by Sparks.Project Grudge, then the Air Force's official public UFO study.Thus there would be no reason for Menzel to not report his sighting for Project Grudge to incorporate into their statistics.Klass, who found discrepancies in the documents and concluded they were faked, wrote:
The addition of the name of Dr.Menkello, "Quantitative Aspects of Mirages," Report No.Harcourt, Brace and Co, 1959
Jay Pasachoff, 2002, "Menzel and Eclipses," for Donald H.UFOs and Abductions: Challenging the Borders of Knowledge, David M.External links
UFOs: Fact or Fiction?Menzel (1959)
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side of medieval culture now unfamiliar, the carnival world of medieval
popular life, which the Soviet scholar Mikhail Bakhtin discerned as the
true context of Rabelais.Carnival imagery is first placed before us in the General Prologue
to prepare us for what follows in the tales.How different this is from
the Decameron: Boccaccio in his prologue and frame made his ten
young ladies and gentlemen examples of perfect decorum, and permitted the
carnival world of buffoonery and grotesquerie to appear only in the stories,
where we get wild images of an abbess throwing her lover's trousers over
her head thinking they're her wimple, or of a lecherous monk led into the
public square on a chain disguised as a wild man and there recognized and
apprehended, images of popular medieval folk comedy, mocking and overblown.In Chaucer such images, though they appear in the stories too, are associated
with the pilgrims themselves, whose behavior on the pilgrimage is itself
carnivalesque.In the modern world clowns and fools and jesters are played by actors,
but in medieval life they were real crackbrains.In 1788 the poet Goethe
described in his Italienishe Reise the carnival in Rome, preceding
Ash Wednesday, no doubt an actual survival of medieval traditions though
changed in many ways.Halloween or, closer to the medieval
tradition, Mardi Gras.Our feelings about this are ambiguous.To
us as individuals, it is a cause for rejoicing to know that we are not alone,
that all of us, irrespective of age or sex or rank or talent, are in the
same boat.As unique persons, on the other hand, all of us are resentful
that an exception cannot be made in our own case.We oscillate between
wishing we were unreflective animals and wishing we were disembodied spirits,
for in either case we should not be problematic to ourselves.During Carnival, all social distinctions are
suspended, even that of sex.Young men dress up as girls, young girls as
boys.The world of Laughter is much more closely related to
world of Worship and Prayer than either is to the everyday, secular world
of Work, for both are worlds in which we all are equal....This explains what is, after all, the preponderant aspect of The Canterbury
Tales until its end.Springtime
is represented with the microscopic image of sap flowing in twigs and leaves.Friar's
neck, the Merchant's forked beard, the Franklin's white beard and red complexion,
the Shipman's browned skin.Southwark, a festive banquet setting, and proceeds to Saint
Thomas 'a Watering, a place of execution.By armes and by
blood and bones!As carnival man the Miller behaves in the carnival
idiom: his drunkenness, his boisterousness, his oaths by the parts of Christ's
body are all characteristics.Addressing us directly, he assures
us he does not speak with evil intent.Reeve's and Miller's
tales and others), of great oaths especially by the parts of God's body
(as in the Host's speeches or the Pardoner's sermon), of a comic devil (in
the Friar's Tale), of dismemberment (in relics, the true ones of Saint Thomas
'a Becket or the Pardoner's false ones), of lechery (in the Merchant's Tale
and elsewhere), drunkenness (in the Cook's fall from his horse in the Manciple's
Prologue.And while Boccaccio altogether excluded the carnivalesque from the
refined company of his prologue, Chaucer lets it emerge by stages or degrees
among the pilgrims until it becomes preponderant.The material world
was always the focus: the future lay in the next generation, not the other
world, and death was viewed as the other side of birth.Manciple's Tale is about the debasement of language, the very stuff
of which the work is made.But The Canterbury Tales ends with the image of the cathedral on
the horizon, symbol of the Heavenly Jerusalem.The material world is the focus and the lower stratum is by no means
ignored.Manciple's Tale is about the debasement of language, the very stuff
of which the work is made. |
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