1971

• 1971.0000 “Ozpa” search

   

  

  “Ozpa” search
  During 1971, the “Ozpa” search of 9 stars conducted by Gerritt Vershuur with a 384-channel receiver.

   

   

   

• 1971.0000 Project Cyclops design study

   

  

  Project Cyclops design study

  During 1971, a design study for Project Cyclops was prepared, co-directed by Bernard Oliver and John Billingham.

  “Project Cyclops : A Design Study of a System for Detecting Extraterrestrial Intelligent Life : NASA Contractor Report 114445 (“NASA CR 114445”)” (1971) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK).

   

   

• 1971.0302 McDonald at SST hearing
  

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  On 2 March 1971, James E McDonald gave evidence before a subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee conducting hearings on the “Civil Supersonic Aircraft Development (SST)”. Following James E McDonald’s evidence, Representative Conte provoked laughter in the hearing room by stating, “A man who comes here and tells me that the SST flying in the atmosphere is going to cause thousands of skin cancers has to back up his theory that there are little men flying around the sky”.

   

   

• 1971.0400 Industrial Research poll

   

  

  Industrial Research poll
  During April 1971, the journal Industrial Research publishes the results of a poll of its readers conducted in January 1971, indicating that 54% believed that UFOs “definitely” (20%) or “probably” (34%) existed.

   

   

   

• 1971.0413 Hoax by sociology students
  

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  A UFO hoax in Maynard, Iowa by students in the sociology class of John Forkenbrock begins during night of 13^th April 1971.

   

   

   

• 1971.0904 US-USSR SETI Conference

   

  

  US-USSR SETI Conference
  On 4 September 1971, a joint US-USSR conference relating to SETI was held in Byurakan, Soviet Armenia.

   

   

   

• 1971.1102 “Delphos Ring” incident
  

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  On 2 November 1971, the Delphos Ring incident occurred in Kansas. Physical trace evidence claims have been made in relation to a grey/white ring on the farm of Mr and Mrs Johnson and their son Ronald Johnson. (Commonly referred to as the “Delphos Ring” incident).

  This incident is Case 60 in Isaac Koi's "Top 100" article,  since it was referred to in 49 of the books covered by that article.

  The National Enquirer reported on 27 May 1973 that it was awarding the Johnson family $5,000 “for supplying the most scientifically valuable UFO evidence in 1972”, following the recommendations of the members of its “blue ribbon” panel of UFO experts.

  This incident has also featured in lists by various UFO researchers of the top UFO cases, including the following:

  • a list by James Carrion, the International Director of the Mutual UFO Network, of the “top 10 cases” in an interview in 2006.
  a list of cases produced by Stanton Friedman for the Fortean Times in 2007 as part of a survey of various researchers of the ten cases from 1947 onwards that interested them the most.

   

   

• 1971.1228 Philosophers consider SETI

   

  

  Philosophers consider SETI
  On 28 December 1971, Lewis White Beck (President of the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association) calls for philosophers to consider the problems arising from exobiological studies in a presidential address delivered before the sixty-eighth Annual Eastern Meeting of the American Philosophical Association in New York City.