Posted on 07/27/2020 1:55:06 PM PDT by RoosterRedux
UFOs have been back in the news because of videos initially leaked, and later confirmed, by the U.S. Navy and officially released by Pentagon that purportedly show "unidentified aerial phenomena" (UAP) in our skies. Speculations about their nature have run the gamut from mundane objects like birds or balloons to visitors from outer space.
It’s difficult, if not impossible, to say what these actually are, however, without context. What happened before and after these video snippets? Were there any simultaneous observations from other instruments, or sightings by pilots?
Judging the nature of these objects (and these seem to be “objects,” as confirmed by the Navy) needs a coherent explanation that should accommodate and connect all the facts of the events. And this is where interdisciplinary scientific investigation is needed.
The proposal to scientifically study UAP phenomena is not new. The problem of understanding such unexplained UAP cases drew interest by scientists during the 1960s, which resulted in the U.S. Air Force funding a group at the University of Colorado, headed by physicist Edward Condon, to study UAP from 1966 to 1968. The resulting Condon Report concluded that further study of UAP was unlikely to be scientifically interesting—a conclusion that drew mixed reactions from scientists and the public.
Concerns over the inadequacy of the methods used by the Condon Report culminated with a congressional hearing in 1968 as well as a debate sponsored by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1969 with participation by scholars such as Carl Sagan, J. Allen Hynek, James McDonald, Robert Hall and Robert Baker. Hynek was an astronomy professor at the Ohio State University and led the Project Blue Book investigation, while McDonald, who was a well-known meteorologist and a member of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) and AAAS, performed a thorough investigation of UAP phenomena. Sagan, a professor of astronomy at Cornell University, was one of the organizers of the AAAS debate. He dismissed the extraterrestrial hypothesis as unlikely but still considered the UAP subject worthy of scientific inquiry.
Recent UAP sightings, however, have so far failed to generate similar interest among the scientific community. Part of the reason could be the apparent taboo around UAP phenomena, connecting it to the paranormal or pseudoscience, while ignoring the history behind it. Sagan even wrote in the afterword of the 1969 debate proceedings about the “strong opposition” by other scientists who were “convinced that AAAS sponsorship would somehow lend credence to ‘unscientific’ ideas.” As scientists we must simply let scientific curiosity be the spearhead of understanding such phenomena. We should be cautious of outright dismissal by assuming that every UAP phenomena must be explainable.
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UFO, UAP... when you beat a dead horse long enough you need to change the acronym to continue the conversation.
UFO Studies?
At least with a degree in UFO Studies you can start your own successful youtube channel.
He always looks like a child star whose career died before puberty.
The changed the name of UFOs to something new. Therefore, the may be investigated without the investigator being called crazy.
You have to be old, but if you remember the tv show “The Invaders”, it was about aliens living among us. When one would get killed, it would disintegrate so as to avoid leaving a body.
I submit that Bigfoot is an alien with that capacity. That’s why no bodies have ever been found. :)
“Just show me the materials of extra-terrestrial origin,” I say.
UFOs buzzed the White House in 1952—and they _still_ haven’t figured out what happened _then_:
https://www.history.com/news/ufos-washington-white-house-air-force-coverup
Homo sapiens are like apes at the monolith:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypEaGQb6dJk
I have “The Invaders” series on DVD—great stuff—two seasons.
https://www.amazon.com/Invaders-Seasons-1-2/dp/B001HUHBBS
Was that the incident when an Air Guard P-51 spent an hour ‘chasing’ the planet Venus?
Hey, it’s my friend Tom Shillue from Gutfeld—
There were a bunch of radar sighting on multiple days, very large number of witness sightings on multiple days, hilarious plane chases of “phantoms” of various kinds.
There was total chaos and confusion.
To this day nobody knows what the f^%$ happened.
“The Invaders” a classic QM Production.
I have a copy of the series soundtrack in addition to the DVDs.
Leprechauns too. Never found one of those, have we?
I saw a couple of the epis on the SyFy channel about 15 years ago.
“The Invaders” didn’t age well, imo, as some one that watched the original run.
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