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The Scientific Consensus on UFOs
There are those who seriously suggest that when it comes to the entire scientific community “As far as science is concerned, the entire UFO subject is an embarrassment”.
These do seem to reflect the scientific attitudes to UFO’s.
Such advocates are seriously uninformed. Many “serious UFO books” have been authored by scientists, scientists who have published in leading academic journals. I mean scientists like J. Allen Hynek (former scientific consultant to Project Blue Book); Jacques Vallee, Frank Salisbury, James E. McDonald, Peter A. Sturrock, Stanton T. Friedman, John E. Mack, Richard F. Haines, C. G. Jung, David R. Saunders, Berthold E. Schwarz, Ivan T. Sanderson, Karla Turner, Bruce Maccabee, and on and on it goes. You even have Carl Sagan & Thornton Page editing the anthology “UFO’s – A Scientific Debate” (Cornell University Press; 1972). Further, journals like “Science” have NOT neglected the UFO issue. “Science” and “Nature” have certainly published letters-to-the-editor and book reviews on or about UFOs.
By the way, I hope readers noticed the use of the word “scientific” in the Sagan/Page anthology given above. Further, the title of the late J. Allen Hynek’s book was “The UFO Experience: A Scientific Inquiry” uses that magic word “scientific”. In addition to being the scientific consultant to the USAF on the UFO issue, Hynek was Chairman of the Department of Astronomy, Northwestern University. 
Lastly, the University of Colorado’s UFO study, under the direction of the late Edward U. Condon, was titled “Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects”. There’s that word again. The only thing unscientific about it was the behaviour and attitude of the Director, Edward U. Condon himself who was a disgrace to the term “scientific”. In short, it would appear that UFOs were NOT an embarrassment to Carl Sagan or Thornton Page or to J. Allen Hynek or to the University of Colorado staff who conducted that UFO study.
In fact, UFOs could not have been an embarrassment to each and every scientist (Ph. D. or M.D.) that has written a serious book on the UFO subject. It doesn’t appear they were worried about peer pressure. Indeed, perhaps there was no established scientific community backlash against them.
Other scientists may not have written UFO books, but they have gone on the public record with pro-UFO statements. Such scientists include Clyde W. Tombaugh (discovered the planet Pluto), Leo Sprinkle (Professor of Psychology), Robert M. L. Baker, Jr. (President of West Coast University), Margaret Mead (Anthropologist), Hermann Oberth (pioneer rocket scientist), Lincoln LaPaz (meteorite specialist, University of New Mexico) and many more if you include foreign countries. Finally, the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics have publicly issued statements in support of UFO research.
This post was sourced from an article by John Prytz at http://EzineArticles.com
Thats all for now
Paul
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