UFOs over China? Not quite, analyst says. CNN, July 20, 2010.
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/07/20/china.ufo.debunked/?hpt=Sbin#fbid=TfmOUG0L2ZU
My comment:
(a) The title of my posting actually are alternate title--and by--the CNN
report.
(b) The report cites
Geoffrey Forden, Hangzhou Light Show. Arms Control Wonk, July 12, 2010.
http://forden.armscontrolwonk.com/
(c)
(i) MIT web directory merely indicates Geoffrey Forden is an "MIT affiliate."
(ii) The above site--in "Who Are These People?"--has a short biography for "
Major Contributors." There, Geoffrey Forden's bio is copied from
Science, Technology and Global Security Working Group, MIT.
http://web.mit.edu/stgs/whoweare.html#2
"Geoffrey Forden, research associate, Dr. Forden has been at MIT since 2000
where his research includes the analysis of Russian and Chinese space
systems as well as trying to understand how proliferators acquire the know-
how and industrial infrastructure to produce weapons of mass destruction.
In 2002-2003, Dr. Forden spent a year on leave from MIT serving as the first
Chief of Multidiscipline Analysis Section for UNMOVIC, the UN agency
responsible for verifying and monitoring the dismantlement of Iraq's weapons
of mass destruction. Previous to coming to MIT, he was a strategic weapons
analyst in the National Security Division of the Congressional Budget Office
after having worked at a number of international particle accelerator
centers.