“But all these people are seeing these things.” “We really don’t know,” Linda Costa said. Their labor of love is about the numbers, just the numbers, and the Costas refrain from speculating on what exactly is happening. Only a small fraction of sightings are actually reported to Mufon or Nuforc. sightings are on the wane, the Costas’ book shows that sightings have risen in waves, to 11,868 nationwide in 2015 from 3,479 in 2001. Rebutting a common perception that U.F.O. “With this compendium, Cheryl and Linda Costa have reminded the public and the media the extraterrestrial phenomenon continues unabated,” said Stephen Bassett, founder and executive director of the Paradigm Research Group, which lobbies for disclosure of official U.F.O.

Ordained as a Buddhist nun, she was running a theater group in Maryland when she met Linda. She came to the collaboration roundabout, having served as a cable lineman in the Air Force in Vietnam, and afterward in the Navy’s submarine service, as a man before undergoing gender-reassignment surgery in the 1980s. “What’s crazy is not being willing to look at research.” “We’re doing scientific research,” Cheryl Costa said. But both say they have spotted U.F.O.s themselves and want to detoxify the subject. The Costas realize some might find this a strange way to spend weekends. “It’s something the government should have been doing.” “We wanted to do our bit for disclosure,” she said. blog for The Syracuse New Times, when the Costas decided to expand their tallies of U.F.O. Working on PCs amid sewing tables in the upstairs parlor - the warmest room in their hundred-year-old house - the two spent weekends for the last 16 months extrapolating figures from sightings reports and laying out the graphics.Ĭheryl Costa was writing New York Skies, a U.F.O. The authors are Cheryl Costa, 65, a former military technician and aerospace analyst, and her wife, Linda Miller Costa, 62, a librarian at Le Moyne College and a former librarian at the National Academy of Sciences, NASA and the Environmental Protection Agency.

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