SCIENCE AND UFOs
The Scientific Study of a UFO Landing
How an Ambitious Chemist Attempted to Prove the Unprovable
He graduated with a PhD in synthetic organic chemistry from Queen Mary College, London University, undertaking postdoctoral research at Oxford and Nottingham. This led him to his position as a developmental chemist for what is now Glaxo- SmithKline, a major pharmaceutical company known for manufacturing the antidepressant drug Seroxat. He wrote peer-reviewed papers for journals such as Helvetica Chimica Acta and The Journal of Antibiotics, all while holding several patents. It was quite clear that Dr. Erol Faruk’s contributions in the fields of pharmaceuticals and medicine were highly respected, but it was his research into a completely different field that caught my personal attention: ufology.
During his time at Nottingham University, he’d come across a 1971 UFO case from the small town of Delphos, Kansas. The case involved a young man named Ron Johnson, who, while tending sheep on his family farm, witnessed a mushroom-shaped object hovering about seventy feet above.
