Given that I have read, by my estimation, nearly 200 books, plus articles, viewed hundreds of videos, and conducted extensive NLP analysis of thousands of pages of corpus containing documents, books, and articles pertaining to the UFO phenomenon I have gained a large body of knowledge on the subject including a substantial number of what I consider to be key cases and events.
This knowledge is incomplete. Or, more aptly put, subject to errors in my memory recall. But my surface memory of events, cases, and concepts is widespread and thus serves as vital nodes in which I can drill down into the more concrete facts at any time.
I state this as it pertains to the apparent problem of too much information in the field of UFO/UAP research. An example is when you hear government officials talking like the discovery of orbs exhibiting highly unusual propulsion and behavior is a more recent phenomenon when most individuals with a casual interest in the subject are aware of the “Foo Fighter” phenomenon of WWII that befuddled all sides of the war.
In other words, these objects have been confounding us for a very long time. The researcher peering into deeper levels would know objects of this nature have been recorded in history going back to pre-industrialization eras of human history.
The phenomenon is multi-faceted, anthropologically expansive and reaches corners of history that precede Christ by more than a thousand years, possibly more if we were to definitively understand primordial cave art.
Taken as a macro whole of data and information it represents a field of study of a voluminous nature on par with higher academia concentrations in the humanities, history, and the sciences. It does in fact encompass all these areas of study and one may make the case that it is a subject that requires a more assiduous approach. But when last looked upon, no colleges are offering majors in UFO Phenomenon.
As such, silos of information can become pipelined to certain parties looking into certain subsets of cases, history, and data unbeknownst to others researching their own subsets. Never the twain shall they meet in most instances along the research path.
UFOlogy is not a field of study known for its efficient knowledge-sharing and cooperation. Past government shenanigans have not helped grease the gears of knowledge attainment.
Research teams or individuals are frequently operating inside reality-boxes different than their peers but then share some common knowledge, usually pooled around the more common and popular cases such as Roswell, Rendleshem Forest, Cash-Landurum, The Phoenix Lights, The 2014 Nimitz Encounters, and so forth. Think of a Venn Diagram that intersects only in the middle along a slim line of cross-over. And there we have the issue of the distortion and degradation of data and facts over time as the “copy machine” effect is amplified by sensationalist reporting, the Internet and radio/podcasting, and peer-to-peer hearsay.
This is the largest, inherent challenge in Ufology. Secrecy & misinformation probably being the second. And they work in tandem to distort the facts, sometimes through honest errors and omissions, sometimes not.
Cognitive and confirmation biases are also a large problem in the research. On one end it can be photos of flares in a triangular formation being presented as full-stop UFO sighting by military personnel who took a photo. Digital artifacts lend a certain volume giving the appearance of an object with girth. At the extreme end of bias, this is how we wind up with alien baby bodies that look like ice cream cakes presented to governmental panels. Hoaxes may actually not be so much hoaxes, but more along the lines of a deep psychological need to manufacture validation of belief.
Given that I have read, by my estimation, nearly 200 books, plus articles, viewed hundreds of videos, and conducted extensive NLP analysis of thousands of pages of corpus containing documents, books, and articles pertaining to the UFO phenomenon I have gained a large body of knowledge on the subject including a substantial number of what I consider to be key cases and events.
This knowledge is incomplete. Or, more aptly put, subject to errors in my memory recall. But my surface memory of events, cases, and concepts is widespread and thus serves as vital nodes in which I can drill down into the more concrete facts at any time.
I state this as it pertains to the apparent problem of too much information in the field of UFO/UAP research. An example is when you hear government officials talking like the discovery of orbs exhibiting highly unusual propulsion and behavior is a more recent phenomenon when most individuals with a casual interest in the subject are aware of the “Foo Fighter” phenomenon of WWII that befuddled all sides of the war.
In other words, these objects have been confounding us for a very long time. The researcher peering into deeper levels would know objects of this nature have been recorded in history going back to pre-industrialization eras of human history.
The phenomenon is multi-facted, anthropologically expansive, and reaches corners of history that precede Christ by more than a thousand years, possibly more if we were to definitively understand primordial cave art.
Taken as a macro whole of data and information it represents a field of study of a voluminous nature on par with higher academia concentrations in the humanities, history, and the sciences. It does in fact encompass all these areas of study and one may make the case that it is a subject that requires a more assiduous approach. But when last looked upon, no colleges are offering majors in UFO Phenomenon.
As such, silos of information can become pipelined to certain parties looking into certain subsets of cases, history, and data unbeknownst to others researching their own subsets. Never the twain shall they meet in most instances along the research path.
Ufology is not a field of study known for its efficient knowledge-sharing and cooperation. Past government shenanigans have not helped grease the gears of knowledge attainment.
Research teams or individuals frequently operating inside reality-boxes different than their peers but then share some common knowledge usually pooled around the more common and popular cases such as Roswell, Rendleshem Forest, Cash-Landurum, The Phoenix Lights, The 2014 Nimitz Encounters, and so forth. Think of a Venn Diagram that intersects only in the middle along a slim line of cross-over. And there we have the issue of the distortion and degradation of data and facts over time as the “copy machine” effect is amplified by sensationalist reporting, the Internet and radio/podcasting, and peer-to-peer hearsay.
This is the largest, inherent challenge in Ufology. Secrecy & misinformation probably being the second. And they work in tandem to distort the facts, sometimes through honest errors and omissions, sometimes not.
Cognitive and confirmation biases are also a large problem in the research. On one end, photos of flares in a triangular formation can be presented as full-stop UFO sightings by military personnel who took a photo. Digital artifacts lend a certain volume giving the appearance of an object with girth. At the extreme end of bias, this is how we wind up with alien baby bodies that look like ice cream cakes presented to governmental panels. Hoaxes may actually not be so much hoaxes, but more along the lines of a deep psychological need to manufacture validation of belief.
There is no “bible” for the UFO phenomenon. Attempts have been made to create them. Richard Dolan and Jermone Clark have made very admirable efforts. However, those works are mostly focused on the historical events, definitions, and timelines of notable phenomenon instances. Prehistoric or pre-Industrial era information has been admirably tackled by Jacques Valle, Chris Aubeck (mentored by Vallee), and others. But we cannot ignore the scientific aspects and yes, spiritual and consciousness aspects of the phenomenon. Here, there is a plenitude of subject matter, who is to say yet which of it is definitive?
Thus, this goes back to reading 200 books and supplemental material and still counting the accumulated page totals of new information, theory, cases, news, ideas, current, and historic discoveries. Ufology is so big that it requires a big solution. A “Big Knowledge” absorption solution.
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