Identified Flying Objects: A Multidisciplinary Scientific Approach to the UFO Phenomenon

by Michael P. Masters

We are sensitive to, or can at least detect with auditory devices, the vibrational communications of most other animals. However, we remain unable to translate and understand what it is they are actually communicating, despite using it ourselves and despite having lived alongside these animals for millions of years on the same planet. In fact, it took until the 1960s before we realized that humans could engage in any form of meaningful communication with other animals here on Earth. In 1967, Beatrix and Allen Gardner began a language acquisition study at the University of Nevada, Reno, which aimed to teach American Sign Language to a chimpanzee named Washoe.20 After some effort, the researchers, along with most of the world, were amazed to discover that Washoe was able to learn 350 signs and even taught her adopted son some of these signs, independent of the researchers.