This is what MK Avi Yehezkel asked in 1997 * The head of the Ministry of Science at the time, Zvi Yanai opposed the investigation of the issue for practical reasons
Avi Yehezkel's query from January '97 and the answer of the Director General of the Ministry of Science at the time, Zvi Yanai
Query in the Knesset, January 22, 1997
Member of Knesset Avi Yehezkel asked the Minister of Science:
Following the public echo around the question of the invention of UFOs in Israel, I would like to ask:
A.. What is the information in your office about extraterrestrial visits and will it be made public?
B. Are Israeli scientists researching the issue, and are they collaborating with scientists from abroad?
C. Does your office check every testimony that comes to it from citizens, and what are its findings?
d. Is there a basis for the testimonies heard recently, or is it a figment of people's imagination?
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The answer of the Director General of the Ministry of Science at the time, Zvi Yanai
In question: a query about the invention of UFOs and extraterrestrials
1. We do not have, as no serious body in the world does, authoritative information about the supposed visits of beings from space to our planet. The testimonies and reports about contacts of the residents of the country with so-called aliens are limited to one-time experiences of individuals and groups, and therefore cannot be scientifically verified. Since these experiences are not the norm, they are legitimately considered mystical revelations that cannot be scientifically confirmed. Admittedly, the lack of proof of the existence of something is not proof that this something does not exist, but in the absence of more solid evidence - "the righteous in his faith shall live". However, an exemption for nothing is impossible. It is amazing that in the fifty years of supposedly intense meetings held by the aliens with officials, workers, farmers, housewives and pensioners, not a single meeting has taken place - with a physicist, biologist, chemist, or astronomer to obtain an accurate scientific picture of the differences and comparisons between their world and ours, between the technologies Their customs to our customs.
The US government established commissions of inquiry to investigate the rumors about unidentified objects in 1952, 1949, 1948 and 1962. These commissions dismissed about 95% of the testimonies about UFO sightings, but their conclusions did not weaken the popular belief in the existence of UFOs and aliens.
One of the characteristics of pseudoscience is that time does not increase the understanding of the phenomenon, and indeed after 50 years of so-called encounters with UFOs and aliens we do not know more about them today than we did 50 years ago. This is the case with the dinosaur that supposedly resides in Loch Ness, with astrology, with parapsychology, with palm reading, and so on with these different and strange beliefs.
2. To the best of my knowledge, no, with the exception of Prof. Ariel Cohen from the Hebrew University who gives his opinion on a subject.
3. To check any testimony coming from the citizens of the country, a special office for UFOs and aliens will be required. The Ministry of Science is busy with an interesting and much more important issue: the promotion of science in the State of Israel and the exploitation of the economic potential inherent in scientific research.
4. From a purely statistical point of view, it is impossible to rule out the existence of intelligent civilizations like ours, or even wiser and more developed than us. The accounting explanation is simple: it took the Earth 5 billion years for intelligent life to develop on it. Since the age of the universe ranges from 10 to 15 billion years, it is possible that there are stars carrying life that predates ours by at least 5 billion years. If so, the casual encounters that the aliens supposedly have with your people are nothing but a colossal waste, especially considering that the average distance between Earth and another planet in our galaxy that might harbor life is at least 8.5 light years. It would take our spacecraft 400 million years to travel this distance.
To conclude: an important rule in science is that an unexplained phenomenon cannot be used as evidence for any hypothesis. The phenomenon of UFOs and aliens is not only unexplained, it is also unproven. If and when a UFO lands on Earth, its pilots are expected to behave with a greater degree of logic and reason than their predecessors, which exist in the experiences of people who are eager to believe.
The Israeli Skeptic website
Prof. Ariel Cohen's proposal to establish a committee regarding UFOs and Zvi Yanai's answer
By Avi Blizovsky
The Ministry of Science does not have the resources and there is no need to bother with the investigation
UFOs and astrological beliefs
The Minister of Science rejects Prof. Ariel Cohen's proposal to establish an investigation committee into the UFO phenomenon
6/8/1996
Begin: "The ministry will refrain from dealing with phenomena, even if they are interesting, that are beyond science"
By Merv Nesher
The Minister of Science, Benny Begin, reacted negatively yesterday to the proposal that his office establish a committee to investigate the UFO phenomenon. The ministry announced that it has acted and will continue to act in the field of science, and will refrain from "dealing with phenomena, even if they are interesting, that are beyond science".
Prof. Ariel Cohen, head of the Department of Atmospheric Sciences at the Hebrew University, and the initiator of the request to the Ministry of Science, examined the "spotlight" himself last night and said that the source is not a UFO, but a Jupiter. Cohen made his proposal to the Minister of Science following many reports from residents about UFOs in the skies of the country.
Cohen asked the commander of a police station in Jerusalem to inform him of reports that would be received about UFOs at the time of their occurrence, so that he could confirm the nature of the phenomenon. Yesterday the police called him after receiving reports from residents. "I realized that in the same direction that they reported, the star of Jupiter was visible, which indeed shone like a spotlight. I filmed it with a home video camera, and by playing with the focus I also created a distortion in the shape of the star." According to him, planets (as opposed to Saturn planets) such as Venus or Jupiter shine with a strong intensity at this time of the year. "While the light coming from other stars appears to flicker, the light coming from these planets does not flicker, and appears as a fixed point of light."
Cohen repeated his position yesterday, according to which professionals in the field of astronomy must point out many optical phenomena that the public is unaware of. "It should be made clear to the public that every phenomenon should be brought to the attention of experts in order to look for a scientific explanation, and not get caught up in romanticism and ideas of external intelligence. This is also the opinion of professionals in the USA".
More of the topic in Hayadan:
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There are many evidences of the existence of people in history
of several countries: Belgium, the nineties. The Minister of Defense (or a senior commander in the Air Force) Wilfried Breuer, explained about the pursuit of aliens with F-16 planes in the skies of Brussels, in front of the residents of the city.
Several American astronauts took pictures and some of the photographs were published. A spacecraft that arrived near Pluto and you can see the pictures of the star from inside
Many have a right angle (extraterrestrial logistic base?).
Photographs from the Sidonia region of Mars. There you see several huge pyramids, a large fortress-like structure, huge faces looking up. All the explanations that these are natural formations are ridiculous.
In addition, the testimonies of pilots, policemen, and many citizens in different places, including Israel and the scientist Bob Lazar
who worked on secret projects in the USA and Nick Pope who was in the UK on a secret committee that investigated the issue (he wrote books about it). If b. Begin firmly refused in his previous position as Minister of Science, to establish a committee
You should investigate the matter, after all it is a policy
"The ostrich" who denies the issue and straightens the line
With the USA in hiding the truth from the public...!
In my opinion, UFO sightings and information gathering are more similar to intelligence work (not harmful and certainly adds reliance on scientific measurement tools and scientific methodologies, statistics, etc.).
Imagine gathering information about Hamas or Hezbollah.
Will the fact that observations do not repeat themselves be a reason for total disregard of what is happening on the border?
A really absurd reason.
Zvi Yanai lied.
Or he is completely ignorant (I don't think so) in everything related to the subject.
Committees to investigate the subject he mentions (the Blue Book Project and the Condon Committee)
were biased their entire purpose was to distract and keep serious people away from the subject.