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UFO&PSI Glossary: A
Glossary comes from latin "glossarium, glossa" (foreign word), and is in fact a list of often difficult-to-understand words followed by their definitions. An encyclopedia of any kind cannot be considered complete without providing a comprehensive glossary.
By Michele Bugliaro Goggia - last modified: March 24, 2006 9:57 AM
A.A.F.: Army Air Force, or Army Air Field (later substituted by Army Air Base).
A.A.P.: anomalous aerial phenomena, old word for UFO.
Abduction: the word's used to describe cases of people taken inside UFOs and examined by their pilots. A whole bibliography has been written by Hopkins, Jacobs, Mack, Turner, while skeptics point out the symptoms are nothing but of psychological origins. It is true some researches are questionable.
Adamski, George: amateur astronomer, mystical and polish-american, he's been the first contactee of history. His alleged contacts start in 1952 at Desert Center, California, with a "Venusian" Nordic alien, witnessed by close friends at a certain distance. Later, Adamski meets Lord Desmond Leslie, who is preparing a book about UFOs in ancient India. The friendship between the two results in Adamski's tale about his encounter being published in "Flying Saucers Have Landed" in 1953. Later, Adamski gains public fame and a second book is published. He dies of heart attack in 1965.
A.F.B.: Air Force Base, indicating a USAF base such as Wright-Patterson AFB.
A.F.R.: Air Force Regulation, the so called USAF rules. Sometimes part of the Joint Army Navy Air force Publication, some of the AFRs are linked to UFOs: the AFR 200-2 establishes every non authorized revelation of sighting reports from military and civil pilots is to be considered as espionnage.
Agents of discredit: individuals used to discredit ufology and its phenomena by ruining witnesses credibilty, controlling famous persons to discredit them face to the public.
Airmiss: procedure that is engaged by airplane commanders after an accident that could have endagered the security. In France, every Airmiss is followed by an investigation of the "Direction Générale de l'Aviation Civile".
Airships: mysterious flying objects signalled by American newspapers in 1896/97.
Albedo: also called reflection coefficient, it's the ratio between the amount of light reflected and the scattered one. The albedo can also be calculated with the formula A=1-e (where "e" isemissivity). The result is between 0 and 1. If the two amounts of light are equal, the object is colourless. Mars' albedo is 0.25, Moon's 0.12.
Animated entities: alien pilots, following the Hynek classification.
APRO: Aerial Phenomena Research Organitation, created and directed since 1952 in the USA from Coral and Jim Lorenzen.The first american civil study center on UFO, disappeared after 36 years of activity.
A.T.C.: Air Traffic Control.
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