bluecat
Skilled Investigator
I wonder if there are other theoretical models that can be applied to the study of ufos.
Most people put on the glasses of physics. They measure, analyze and try to take the phenomena apart. They ask questions that physicists ask. But the problem is, as J. Allen Hyneck pointed out, “We don’t study ufos. We study ufo REPORTS.” There is nothing to haul to into a lab and do science on and what we have, the reports, are made by people and subject to usual sorts of problems eye witnesses have.
(I know, there’s lots of trace evidence, but it doesn’t shed very much light on anything.)
Are there different lenses we can look through? Jaques Vallee hints at looking at ufos as control systems, but I’m not clear as to what he means by that. There’s also Systems Theory, Chaos Theory and Information Theory, all alternate ways to think about reality. Could any of these theories lead us to ask more productive questions?
Is there someone like Paul Davies or someone else who specializes in popularizing science who could talk about this.
bluecat
Most people put on the glasses of physics. They measure, analyze and try to take the phenomena apart. They ask questions that physicists ask. But the problem is, as J. Allen Hyneck pointed out, “We don’t study ufos. We study ufo REPORTS.” There is nothing to haul to into a lab and do science on and what we have, the reports, are made by people and subject to usual sorts of problems eye witnesses have.
(I know, there’s lots of trace evidence, but it doesn’t shed very much light on anything.)
Are there different lenses we can look through? Jaques Vallee hints at looking at ufos as control systems, but I’m not clear as to what he means by that. There’s also Systems Theory, Chaos Theory and Information Theory, all alternate ways to think about reality. Could any of these theories lead us to ask more productive questions?
Is there someone like Paul Davies or someone else who specializes in popularizing science who could talk about this.
bluecat