Gordon Creighton remembered

摘要

It was with extreme sadness that I learned of the death of English re-searcher Gordon Creighton this past July 16th. He was a cherished friend, a cordial and ever-helpful colleague. His passing was announced by his son, Philip Creighton, in a recent issue of Flying Saucer Review (FSR), the editorship of which Philip Creighton completed following his father's passing. Gordon was the forerunner in a theory some U. S. researchers and I hold today, namely, that what the public considers as "UFO events" actually seem to be caused by two separate phenomena. There is the veri-fied fact of unidentified aeroforms traversing earth's atmosphere, chased by jet pilots, caught on radar, and occasionally photographed by reliable witnesses; all of these unexplained occurrences take place in full waking consciousness and in our physical space-time. Then there are the so-called "UFO abduction" reports which began to proliferate in the 1970s and early 1980s, and which UFO researchers generally accepted as perpetrated by physical UFO occupants from physical UFOs, as described above.