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Originally posted by nightwing
I say again, when does the research effort begin ?
Originally posted by nightwing
"Are you saying that a serious effort hasn’t been made yet, or that all the experts to this day have done it wrong?" == Hal9000
I am saying that there has been no scientific inquiry to my knowledge, other than isolated and repeatable phenomenon.
Define for me, if you can, just what a UFO expert is supposed to be. And tell me what they have done right for scientific inquiry.
Historical research is great, for a historian.
You dont make a scientific "discovery" by
historical research or by looking at testimonies under a microscope.
Originally posted by nightwing
Did you not see the first option I placed in the PJ forum of yours ? Make a model good enough to use for predicting results of ET physical hardware contact with humans. Use the predictive templates to look for a modern day match up. Since I had essentially NO reaction to that, I sorta lost interest in posting the second option.
I love the encouragement you toss my way.
"I doubt that you have a better way of doing it" == Hal9000
Prejudgement is always an interesting challenge.
I need to know just where and when the UFO research began.
And before Gazrok joins in, no matter how intricately you research testimony and
hearsay, that is not scientific data points. I say again, when does the research effort begin ?
I think we will get some documents in a few years that were based on stuff that is happening now
ufologie.net...
After many years of experience with virtually all aspects of the UFO phenomenon, I have come to believe that if we "precipitate out" the essential elements from the chaos of "popular ufology," we will uncover a new empirical phenomenon, perhaps comparable to the first glimpses of microorganisms by Leeuwenhoek or Jupiter's satellites by Galileo. Unfortunately, the process may be almost as taxing as Madame Curie's extraction of a gram of radium from several tons of pitchblende.
This hasn't already been done because in the face of overwhelming ridicule, it has been impossible to obtain qualified personnel and the necessary funds to treat the subject seriously and professionally. in the wake of buffoonery and religious fantasy, the field has been left to the well-meaning but untrained amateur who all too often has fallen into the same trap as the scientist - of equating the UFO phenomenon irrevocably with "SETI" (the search for extraterrestrial intelligence), leaving no room for open-ended research. However, these same amateurs have done yeoman service in gathering and preserving data that otherwise would have been irretrievably lost, and they did this while earning their livelihood elsewhere. What chance would medical research or going to the moon have if left entirely to unpaid volunteers?