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If readers doubt all of this, I strongly advise acquainting yourself with the CIA sponsored Robertson Panel and Report from January 1953 which was inaugurated at the direct request of the White House. I have to repeat my earlier comments that from the very beginning UFOs (nee ‘flying saucers’) were a national security issue, NOT a science issue. Scientists need not apply for the position of UFO investigator with officialdom since they didn’t have proper security clearances or a need to know and wouldn’t be allowed to publish their findings or give UFO lectures to their students.
So another major reason why scientific attitudes on UFOs couldn’t deal with the issue from the get-go was that they didn’t have access to the data. All the UFO sighting reports were in the hands of the USAF (and other security agencies like the NSA) and classified. Scientists can’t investigate in the absence of hardcore data.
It is indeed unfortunate that scientists can’t just snap their fingers and have UFOs appear and reappear on demand, but that applies to other phenomena as well like Transient Lunar Phenomena, gamma-ray bursts, ball lightning, supernovae, even SETI, etc. Somehow these other elusive, unpredictable, unrepeatable phenomena are considered worthy of science and are considered to be in the realm of science, so your argument there falls flat.
Scientists and the UFO Extraterrestrial Hypothesis (ETH)
Some (note: some) people (including some scientists) considered the UFO ETH (extraterrestrial hypothesis) and dismissed it as implausible (note: but not impossible). Other people (including some scientists) have considered the UFO ETH and considered it plausible, even the most likely explanation.
I on the other hand note that with the UFO ETH, we have a perfect union between theory and observation. Theory just about mandates or requires that extraterrestrial intelligence(s) be here. Observations strongly suggest that they are here. As I said, a near perfect match. Isn’t science wonderful?
This post was sourced from an article by John Prytz at http://EzineArticles.com
Thats all for now
Paul
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