“Best UFO Cases” by Isaac Koi

PART 9:    Consensus lists : Fortean Times expert poll (2007)

Earlier Parts of this article have considered several earlier polls of ufologist to determine any consensus as to the “best” UFO cases. In particular, I have discussed a poll by Jacques Vallee in 1965 (see PART 5), by Ronald Story in 1979 (see PART 6), a “Vox Populi” poll by Paul Kimball in 2006 (see PART 7) and a poll of experts by Paul Kimball in 2005/2006 (see PART 8).  This Part considers a poll of ufologists by “The Fortean Times” Magazine in 2007.

The “Fortean Times” magazine is a British publication devoted to “The World of Strange Phenomena”. It has a website at the link below:

http://www.forteantimes.com/

The June 2007 edition of that magazine (issue FT 225) celebrated “60 Years of UFOs” and the front cover refers to “The Best Evidence”.

For that issue, the Fortean Times indicates that it “asked 16 prominent researchers from very different backgrounds” to answer several questions, including the following:

“What do you believe to be the most evidential – or, to look at it from a slightly different angle, genuinely unexplained – UFO case from the period 1947-2007” (Footnote 9.01).