Saturday, June 24, 2006

UFO Research: Findings vs. Facts

NARCAP has made the case that some of these phenomena have unusual electromagnetic properties. Therefore, they could disrupt microprocessors and adversely effect avionic systems, Roe explained, and that for those reasons and others UAP should be considered a hazard to safe aviation.

"It is likely that either conclusion will fly in the face of the general assertion that UAP are not real and that there are no undocumented phenomena in our atmosphere," Roe continued. That should open the door, he said, to the realization that there's no good reason to discard outright the possibility that extraterrestrial visitation has occurred and may be occurring.

"Physics is leading to new and potentially paradigm shifting understandings about the nature of our universe and its physical properties," Roe said. "These understandings may point the way towards an acceptance of the probability of interstellar travel and communication by spacefaring races."


Unfortunately, the rest of the article is so much uninspired muchness from the obligatory "skeptics." You know who they are.

1 comments:

W.M. Bear said...

Unfortunately, the rest of the article is so much uninspired muchness from the obligatory "skeptics." You know who they are.

Like the obligatory Seth? This is a version of the "he-said she-said" school of journalism, where, if you're describing a so-called "controversial" perspective you're supposedly obligated to also describe the opposing POV.

What I found interesting about the article, though, was the idea that many examples of the UFO phenomenon could be attributable to poorly understood or even undiscovered NATURAL phenomena, a wholly reasonable-sounding take (to me, anyway). Equally interesting, I found, was that the sceptical take in this instance centered around the idea that ALL natural atmospheric phenomena are ALREADY well understood, so that it's highly unlikely any new ones will be discovered. Talk about the obtuseness of scientific orthodoxy! Its worse than the medieval Church EVER was because it doesn't even want to allow the MENTION of heresy! At least the Church takes heresy seriously.