trainedobserver
Paranormally Disenchanted
I am in-contact with John Alexander. I think that I like his views but he keeps leaving me with questions swirling around my mind. I have asked him how he thinks that Ufology should advance given the fact that he says that people within the field do not even know the right questions to ask.
That's a good one. I think Alexander is certainly right in that regard. Pop culture Ufology is way off in the weeds and thinks it already knows the answer having not yet even correctly formulated the question.
One of his arguments that makes a great deal of sense to me is the political one. If any government, political party, or politician had knowledge of an alien presence on the Earth they would undoubtedly use it in the political arena to embarrass their enemies and to garner power and influence. Certainly hostile foreign governments would not agree to play along with the United States on this subject and nothing else. It doesn't make political sense.
My feeling is that Alexander may be accurately portraying the current landscape. UFOs exist and are tracked by military sensors but no one knows what they truly are, where they come from, or what they are doing here. There is nothing to disclose. That no agency has picked up the tar-baby once the Air Force dropped it seems plausible from a political standpoint if not a military one. I think his concern is that there should be a funded effort to study UFOs and he couldn't find one in existence within the military command structure. It seems pretty clear he thinks it is a subject well worth their attention and funding.
It's almost as though pop Ufology is the great stumbling block to advancing the study of UFOs in the scientific and military arenas. The more absurd quasi-religious belief systems that spring up around UFOs the harder it is to find people willing to pick up the sticky mess and examine it.
I think Alexander knows more than he is telling but I think he is shooting straight about a great deal of the myths he addresses in his book. Was he kept in the dark and fed crap the whole time he was looking into the subject? Maybe, but maybe he is telling it like it is.