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originally posted by: Caver78
a reply to: karl 12
On a scale of 1 to 10 of something gone horriibly wrong lets just say I found the 100 level.
Appreciate the links you dropped!
I wasn't ranting!
If we'd been slugging back a couple of cold ones at a pub and chatting I'd of said the same thing! Unfortunately I've never had filters & it being damned difficult for tone to come across in typing I shouldn't be surprised my thoughts came across as "rant-ish".
I get pretty passionate when ever misinformation gets institutionalized as fact. Especially if it's possibile to to stop that train wreck from happening. Altho at this point I'm sure we're going to be dealing with this slow motion ufo/uap train wreck long after I die.
“It is in their own words without any interruptions or interjections by me,” notes Sprague, who is also a regular contributor to History Channel’s “Ancient Aliens” and CW’s “Mysteries Decoded.” Sprague, who has been a UFO researcher for 25 years after having his own sighting as a young teen, stitches together a fascinating collection of accounts of UFO sightings and experiences that span continents. “From a bubbling black blob that ascends into the air in Scotland to a humanoid figure engulfed in flames hovering in the middle of a military installation in the Outback of Australia, we are not dealing with just a singular mystery here,” Sprague says of something he’s come to realize with this new book.
Abstract This dissertation explores efforts to design and execute scientific studies of unidentified flying objects (UFOs) in the United States in the midst of the Cold War as a means of examining knowledge creation and the construction of scientific authority and credibility around controversial subjects. I begin by placing officially- sanctioned, federally-funded UFO studies in their appropriate context as a Cold War national security project, specifically a project of surveillance and observation, built on traditional arrangements within the military- industrial-academic complex. I then show how non-traditional elements of the investigations – the reliance on non-expert witnesses to report transient phenomena – created space for dissent, both within the scientific establishment and among the broader American public. By placing this dissent within the larger social and political instability of the mid-20th century, this dissertation highlights the deep ties between scientific knowledge production and the social value and valence of professional expertise, as well as the power of experiential expertise in challenging formal, hegemonic institutions.
Nation's Largest Centre For Historical RecordsOn UFOs To Be Established In New Mexico.