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375Endnotes 1. The study of UFOs (Unidentified Flying Objects). 2. The Trinity Site was located 150 kilometers from Alamogordo in a region called Jornada del Muerto (The Journey of Death). 3. Under the leadership of Leo Szilard, the same man who convinced Albert Einstein to write a letter to President Roosevelt expressing his support for thedevelopment of nuclear weapons. 4. Pour la Science magazine, the French edition of Scientific American, special edi- tion on scientific geniuses centered on Richard Feynman. 5. The lunatic fringe of ufology is interested in extraterrestrial races. Unfortu- nately, there are many subdivisions. 6. Fabrice Bonvin at www.ovni.ch. 7. Kenneth Arnold pointed out that the vessels looked like “saucers bouncing off the water.” Based on this expression, a journalist later invented the term“flying saucers.” The term UFO was introduced later. 8. This is increasingly contradicted by relativist quantum mechanics. 9. Pour la Science, edition on scientific geniuses, Richard Feynman, page 13. 10. In Cartesian coordinates. 11. 1.62,10 –35meters. 12. Value of Planck time: 5.4,10–44seconds. 13. The universe is only 0.135 billion centuries old.14. 6.626,10 –34joules/second. This value is the smallest amount of energy possi- ble or the smallest mechanical action possible. 15. Often used as a reference to the famous parapsychologist Charles Fort.16. Mars is just the first planet to be explored. 17. “Enquête sur les ovni, voyage aux frontières de la science,” Jean-Pierre Petit, éditions Albin Michel, 1992. J. P . Petit is the former Research Director ofCNRS. 18. La Recherche, nr. 102, July/ August 1979.