Studying UFOs: Data Challenges, Facts & Analysis Approach

In conversation a few weeks ago I discussed the analysis plan for Metron Deep Research with a friend of mine. I told him, each analysis, taken as a subset corpus from the Primary repository stands on its own as having the potential to glean interesting insights. But each silo of analysis is likely to be only a piece of the larger puzzle. In some cases each silo subset corpus is a study of a complex system with its own inputs, outputs, feedback loops, attributes and metrics. A nested holon within the larger system. The larger system is a completed puzzle, hopefully. As with the jigsaw puzzle, one doesn’t require every piece to fit in order to understand what picture it represents. A similar idea applies with the game show, Wheel of Fortune. A few missing letters still reveals an obvious phrase. Here again as is relevant is so many other facets of life, the 80/20 rule applies. 

When studying the UFO phenomenon (note I use UFO and UAP interchangeably) a unique set of challenges present themselves. There is possibly no other field of study that represents such a mountain of data in various forms that compares to Ufology. Meterology and Archaeology may be comparable. 

Consider financial data – this data consists primarily of numbers, dates, ratios and other calculations. In Ufology, data may represent physical evidence, time/dates, weather conditions, veracity of witnesses, photographic/video analysis, visual observations (drawings and descriptions), geospatial data, flight patterns and historical air traffic data. 

UFOs transcend the boundaries of our reality boxes and thus demand multidimensional levels of data and situational analysis. There is no singular master-repository for all this data. It exists in hundreds, possibly thousands of locations held by both public and private entities, including the governments and militaries of the world, UFO research groups and, we know now, aerospace and technology corporations. 

Still, there is a multitude of data available on the Internet today. And new information appears faster now. It seems there is almost a weekly successful FOIA request or new observational data uploaded to various Ufology sites or becoming breaking news. 

When I consider analysis of UAP I ask what are the basic established facts today?

  1. UAP exists
  2. We don’t know with certainty what UAP are
  3. We don’t know the origin and purpose of UAP
  4. UAP exhibit intelligent control
  5. UAP exhibit transmedium flight and movement suggesting advanced propulsion and technology that per our current understanding, they may transcend our knowledge of the laws of physics
  6. Close encounters with UAP can incur physiological effects on humans
  7. Close encounters with UAP can incur pyschological effects on humans
  8. Physical proximity of UAP can incur effects on soil, vegetation – it can be a physical phenomenon

The nice thing about established facts is that they are useful as starting points for deeper research. More details on the facts will warrant further discussion in additional posts. 

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