Society for Scientific Exploration founded

Name: Society for Scientific Exploration founded
Start: 1982
Location: Washington, D.C.

When: 1982
Where: Washington, D.C.
Sources: 1 public source

The Society for Scientific Exploration, founded in 1982 Mohammad Javanshiry, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Scientists including Stanford's Peter Sturrock formed the Society for Scientific Exploration to study anomalous phenomena. Its council first met on Jan. 5, 1982 in Washington, its first annual meeting followed that June, and it later launched the Journal of Scientific Exploration.

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