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raw video data and is used for such by the Department of Defense, we have been able to determine that the objects have the ability to materialize or dematerialize in one frame of video, which is is one- -30th of a second. We have also learned that they appear to be solid objects, highly reflective, which are some distance from the camera lens. The objects that were analyzed do not exhibit the normal flight behavior of aircraft or balloons. In short, they defy physics as we understand the term.' "Consider what these sightings have in common. In each case the so-called spacecraft did not disappear by moving away, even at high speed. It simply vanished on the spot, or it slowly faded away like the Cheshire cat, sometimes leaving behind a whitish cloud, sometimes also producing the sound of an explosion. In other cases, UFOs have been reported to enter the ground. I hardly need to point out that this behavior is contrary to what physical objects do and quite impossible to duplicate with our current spacecraft technology” The notion that UFOs are metallic, manufactured craft has also been challenged by their ability to change shape while in flight or on the ground. After two decades of examining hundreds of such accounts, in 1975 J. Allen Hynek also mused about the peculiar physics ermaA of UFOs: "If UFOs are indeed somebody else's nuts and bolts hardware, then we must still explain how such tangible hardware can change shape before our eyes, vanish in a Cheshire cat manner .. . seemingly melt away in front of us, or apparently ‘materialize’ mysteriously before us without apparent detection by persons nearby or in neighboring towns. We must wonder, too, where UFOs are ‘hiding’ when not manifesting them-selves to human eyes." In 1976 Hynek added to the discussion the remarkable ability of UFOs to merge into a single object. Another peculiarity is the alleged ability of certain UFOs to dematerialize.... There are quite a few reported instances where two distinctly different UFOs hovering in a clear sky will converge and eventually merge into one object. (00 John Keel has also been impressed by the super-physics of UFOs. He has examined thousands of UFO sightings and has amassed a large library of accounts where UFOs perform aerial acrobatics impossible for a physical object, as well as their ability to materialize, dematerialize, and instantaneously change into a myriad of shapes. In his book Operation Trojan Horse, he offers an answer to Hynek's question about the nature of UFOs. "The statistical data which I have extricated indicate that flying saucers are not stable machines requiring fuel, maintenance, or logistical support. They are, in all probability, transmogrifications of energy and do not exist in the 48 Regarding the superphysics of such sightings, Jacques Vallee stated: