The problem with the UFO phenomenon is “ufology” – the
pseudo-science that the great unwashed, the rabble, has adopted as their
sobriquet.
One constantly reads (or hears) that UFO conjecture, or
hypotheses, need “peer review,” a phrase taken from academia or science but
never accepted as a practice by UFO mavens or researchers.
After all, who in “ufology” is qualified to pass judgment on
the poncifs of their fellow ultrafidians? [Explanation: who in the UFO world is
qualified to determine if ufological nonsense has validity or not?]
Take the re-constituted Roswell Dream Team for instance.
Does the one lone objective partner – Chris Rutkowski – have enough clout –
mental and otherwise – to thwart the faith-obsessed mind-sets of his team
colleagues; that is, can Mr. Rutkowski stem the belief fervor of Dream Team
members when their faith in the ET hypothesis takes hold based upon very
circumscribed evidence?
And then we have the UFO skeptics, who bring to the UFO
table all kinds of ruminations that have the gloss of serious scrutiny but,
when examined carefully, only has the patina of objectivity and academic
acumen.
(The evidence for cavalier skepticism is made manifest by
the lack of academic or scientific credentials by those claiming to be
skeptics: they are self-anointed.)
But the essential problem is not the Dream Team or skeptical
cliques. It’s the sycophancy of the rabble. That UFO throng weighs in with
predilections based upon facile psychological or sociological elements that border
upon insanities of various kinds.
Take a look at the comments that abound at various UFO
venues: UFO UpDates, Rense, Above Top Secret, and even here, among many others.
The ruminations are patently aberrant.
This has been the case with UFOs since 1947, when the
phenomenon reared its head and became a fringe fascination for people
themselves on the fringe (of society) or mental competency.
UFOs should have been studied, as Jacques Vallee suggested
and tepidly acted upon with his “Invisible College” idea, taken from the
Rosicrucians or Robert Boyle’s Royal Society of London clique.
A small, qualified group of credentialed persons, from
various academic disciplines should have banded together to study UFOs from the
outset.
This didn’t happen at the overt level, and that explains the
ongoing belief that MJ-12 may have legitimately existed or still exists: MJ-12
fits with the sensible idea of an Invisible College.
But any idea of a qualified band of UFO devotees getting
together now is muffled by the onslaught of the rabble and the rabble’s use of
the internet to intercede with ignorance in the matter of the phenomenon.
The vociferous clamor of the UFO underbelly drowns out or
dissipates rational discourse.
We even experience that here, although we strive mightily to
curb the waywardness of illogic and utter banality of thought that comes our
way as comments on our topics.
UFOs, as a phenomenon, has been lost by the gargantuan storm
of idiocies that have inundated the subject and continue apace now that the
internet has opened the door to every asinine quidnunc who thinks what they
have to offer is gold of the gods.
Can we, and a few other UFO bailiwicks, continue to ruminate
within this maelstrom or cacophony of nonsense? Should we?
Paul Kimball and other sensate individuals have chosen not
to. We like their withdrawal from the blatant UFO scene. And see it as a way
out of the madhouse.
RR
