Thank you for the kind words, I'm glad you liked my post. It is great fun to speculate where these strange craft might come from, the truth of the matter is that we just do not have the evidence to determine their origin. This little fact frustrates me just as much as any other paranormal enthusiast, but what's the point in jumping to conclusions that only muddies the water of the entire u.f.o. field. Even the greatest most respectable ufologists (Example even Stanton Friedman) seems to be drawing conclusions based on very little evidence that does great harm to the u.f.o. field as a whole. This is the very reason why ufology has made such little progress since the 1940's. There is no organization or governing body in ufology that enforces strict guidelines on how to conduct research/investigation (proper protocols) and something similar to a peer reviewed journal would really be helpful. The question is who in ufology will put there hand up and create such an organization in order for the field to make progress? It's time for the whole field of ufology to unite under one (scientific) banner and get rid of the frauds.
Pierre,
I could not agree more, right up to the part about the governing body within ufology. Certainly, that is not because of the logic typically employed in systematic fashion within great and effective institution based scientific discovery processes either. It's because in the case of "UFO", the phenomenology damage has already been done. Mankind has reached the sentient level within it's evolution where it can look back upon it's own history and determine how in times not too distantly past that it's own species attributed completely different contextually derived meanings/definitions to UFOs that their primitive observations must have tainted falsely, correct? Pierre, can I ask you something? Just kind of leaning over and whispering..."WTF makes them think we got it right now?" I'll tell you why, it's because of the single most destructive force on planet Earth, Mankind's ego.
Therefore it is back through and out this same window of endless perceptual mistakes that mankind logically must venture in an effort to understand not just some intangible, visually observed and experienced endless rabbit hole of possibilities, but rather the theater that truly inspires all his all too perpetuated painful mysteries, consciousness itself.
If at this time, mankind can scientifically demonstrate that the act of human observation alone, or interactive with matter agencies yet to be identified or understood, does indeed influence matter on a physical level, then how the hell can we possibly understand the phenomenal when it's solely based on observation alone? We MUST understand the consciousness/material relationship if we are to ever understand the phenomenal. This is so astounding a field of speculative considerations and theoretical applications at this time IMO, it literally relegates UFOs to a grain of sand on the beach of consciousness possibility.
So you see my new friend Pierre, BTW, VERY glad to meet you, it's not so much a matter of present organizational refinement IMO, as it would seem a matter of true necessity, that we throw the "ufology" book out that same aforementioned window, completely.
The problem is that right now, we got WAY too many hands up in the air already. Everybody's got the answers and most are coming to us via a flavor of their favorite science fiction reruns.
Wanna get rid of the frauds? Make "ufology" a nonprofessional sport. Define it for what it really is, an aspect of phenomenological consideration, and nothing more. Then watch all the enthusiasts running and screaming away from their favorite matinee version of "ufology". Once that little spectacle dies down, maybe UFOs, and a myriad of other exceptional unexplained phenomena as well, could truly take a respectful seat within the halls of legitimate scientific consideration. Until then, enjoy the comic books. Like I stated, the damage has been done. It's imprinted upon all our ufological memories. Thank you so much, MR. Don (comic book) Keyhoe.