SUBJECT: UFOs and the Limits of Science FILE: UFO2715
by Ronald D. Story c.1981
Reproduced for educational purposes
Perhaps the most ingenious of all, the original Hollow Earth Theory was
advanced by several writers in the nineteenth century, but was later
linked to UFOs and popularized by Ray Palmer and Dr. Raymond Bernard.
In the early 1960s, Bernard claimed that Earth was actually a hollow
sphere, with two openings at the poles, and that flying saucers
belonged to a secret civilizations living inside Earth. The theory
supposedly gained support from observations made during Admiral Richard
E, Byrd's arctic and antarctic expeditions. However, Dr. Laurence M.
Gould, a distinguished University of Arizona geologist and second in
command during the late admiral's first antartic expedition, denies any
such observations or discoveries. He recently informed my associate, J.
Richard Greenwall, that he discussed the matter with Admiral Byrd
several times prior to the admiral's death in 1957, and both were
amazed at the observations attributed to them. When he was president of
the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1953,
Dr. Gould considered but finally declined an invitation to address the
Hollow Earth Society, then meeting in Tucson, and believes that, had he
accepted the invitation, it would have been promoted endlessly as an
endorsement of the Hollow Earth Theory.
The Hollow Earth Theory was examined in 1970 by Dr. John S. Derr, a
professional seismologist, then working on the Viking Mars lander
project with Martin Marrieta Corporation and now with the U.S.
Geological Survey. Dr. Derr discussed several types of geodetic and
seismological data which clearly demonstrated that Earth is not, and
cannot be, hollow. Artificial satellite perturbations, for example,
show not only that Earth is solid, but also that its mass is
concentrated toward its center, contrary to the idea "predicted" by the
Hollow Earth Theory. He also presented seismological data concerning
the free oscillations of Earth and the velocity of compressional and
shear waves in earth following earthquakes.
Dr. Derr's analysis, plus other less sophisticated but more obvious
evidence (such as the fact that numerous U.S. and Soviet satellites,
which continually fly over the poles, have not photographed any
openings) leaves little doubt that UFOs, whatever they are, do not
originate from a civilization in a hollow Earth.
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