05-31-2024, 01:39 PM
Suppose because this thread is about 'scientists' it's also the right one to put some statements from 'academics'.
They had to go somewhere lol.
• Academics:
• "We in academia have it made after all, especially the scientists in academia, we're kind of at the top of the pecking order.. and in order to maintain that illusion (which is was it is) we've got to not appear the fool so the majority of the scientific community is a very non-risk taking group of people that live in a rather small reality and are in fact scared of things that seem to be outside that reality."
Michael D. Swords Ph.D, Professor of Natural Science, Western
Michigan University.
Video / Files
• "Because few scientists have carefully studied the literature and conducted field investigations, most know pratically nothing about UFOs. Their ignorance of the subject has much to do with their attitudes towards it."
Dr David M. Jacobs, Professor of History, Temple University - (UFO Congress paper, 1980).
E-Book
• "Even the Soviets, who previously refused even to discuss the subject now admit to having a study group with good qualifications. The USSR Academy of Sciences still holds to the orthodox scientific view that UFOs are a nonproblem, however, using the same arguments we heard so long. These arguments are just as invalid in the USSR as in the USA."
George Kocher, unofficial paper 'UFOs: What to Do?' for circulation within RAND Corporation - November 27th, 1968.
PDF
• "Hysteria and contagion of belief can account for some of the reports of UFOs, but the weight of evidence suggests strongly that there must be some kind of physical phenomenon which underlies a portion of the reports."
Dr. Robert L. Hall, USAF Psychologist - statement submitted to the House Committee on Science and Astronautics Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects, July 29th, 1968.
Link
• "About 20 per cent of the sightings being reported to Ohio Northern university's 'Project A' cannot be explained away by ordinary procedure. There is a general consistency in these sightings - a saucer-shaped object, flat on the bottom with rounded edges and rising to a slight dome on top. The color is the same, bright blue or green. Takeoff is the same, slow at first and then, after reaching a certain point above the earth's surface, a terrific burst of speed."
Dr. Warren Hickman, University Dean and Co-Chairman of Project A, Ohio Northern University's UFO Investigation - THE NEWS (Lima, OHIO), 'Project A' Chief Can't Explain Flying Saucers', September 25th, 1952.
Link: 1 / 2
• "There are unidentified flying objects. That is, there are a hard core of cases - perhaps 20 to 30 percent in different studies - for which there is no explanation.. We can only imagine what purpose lies behind the activities of these quiet, harmlessly cruising objects that time and again approach the earth. The most likely explanation, it seems to me, is that they are simply watching what we are up to."
Dr. Margaret Mead, world-renowned Anthropologist, 'UFOs - Visitors from Outer Space?', Redbook, vol. 143, September, 1974.
Video: 24:42 / Video: 5:05
• "UFO denial appears to be as much political as sociological - more like Galileo’s ideas were political for the Catholic Church than like the once ridiculed theory of continental drift. In short, considerable work goes into ignoring UFOs, constituting them as objects only of ridicule and scorn. To that extent one may speak of a 'UFO taboo', a prohibition in the authoritative public sphere on taking UFOs seriously.”
Professor Alexander Wendt - 'Sovereignty and the UFO', academic peer reviewed and published paper co-authored with Raymond Duvall.
PDF
• "There appears, then, to be a broad consensus among the governments cited above: UFOs are objectively real – albeit currently not fully understood by science - worthy, at best, of focused study and, at the very least, of sustained monitoring in the interests of aviation safety and national security."
Robbie Graham - 'History of Government Management of UFO Perceptions through Film and Television', academic peer reviewed and published paper co-authored with Matthew Alford.
PDF
• "Over 50 percent of the UFO sightings have occurred over, coming from, or plunging into or coming out of water."
Zoologist Ivan T. Sanderson.
E-Book 1 / 2
• "It remains an established fact, supported by numerous observations, that UFOs have not only been seen visually but have also been picked up on the radar screen and have left traces on the photographic plate."
Dr. Carl Jung, 'A Fresh Look at Flying Saucers', Time, August 4th, 1967.
NewsClipping / Link: 1 / 2
• "I will stress once again that we do not know the source from which the UFOs or the alien beings come - whether or not, for example, they originate in the physical universe as modern astrophysics has described it.. but they manifest in the physical world and bring about definable consequences in that domain."
Dr. John E. Mack, Professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, and founding director of the Center for Psychology and Social Change, 1977 Pulitzer Prize winner - 'Abduction', New York: Scribners, 1994.
Video / E-Book
• "The phenomenon may be our own distant descendants coming back through time to study us in their own evolutionary past."
Dr. Michael P. Masters Ph.D, Professor of biological anthropology - 'Identified Flying Objects: A Multidisciplinary Scientific Approach to the UFO Phenomenon'.
Link / Video: 1:11:11
• "The mission of the Chinese UFO scholars is to help our citizens realize and implement their right to know and their right to discover. Any attempt to cover up is unacceptable. Statistics of the China UFO group shows that people involved in the subject of UFOs is of an overwhelming scale. According to our statistics in China, out of 1.3 billion people we have close to tens of millions of people who are UFO enthusiasts. And of those who are interested in the UFO subject who believe that UFO exists, account for half of the Chinese population.”
Dr. Sun Shili, Ph.D., Professor of International Trade at Beijing’s University of International Business and Economics.
Video
• "Based upon unreliable and unscientific surmises as data, the Air Force develops elaborate statistical findings which seem impressive to the uninitiated public unschooled in the fallacies of the statistical method. One must conclude that the highly publicized Air Force pronouncements based upon unsound statistics serve merely to misrepresent the true character of the UFO phenomena."
Yale Scientific Magazine (Yale University) Volume XXXVII, Number 7, April, 1963.
PDF
• "The government has manipulated the results scientific studies, such as the one done by Battelle, to show that they found noting when in fact they did. In other cases it has set up panels that purported to scientifically examine the subject, but instead used them to debunk the phenomena, such as those of Robertson and Condon."
Battelle Researcher Dr. Irena Scott Ph.D.
Video
They had to go somewhere lol.
• Academics:
• "We in academia have it made after all, especially the scientists in academia, we're kind of at the top of the pecking order.. and in order to maintain that illusion (which is was it is) we've got to not appear the fool so the majority of the scientific community is a very non-risk taking group of people that live in a rather small reality and are in fact scared of things that seem to be outside that reality."
Michael D. Swords Ph.D, Professor of Natural Science, Western
Michigan University.
Video / Files
• "Because few scientists have carefully studied the literature and conducted field investigations, most know pratically nothing about UFOs. Their ignorance of the subject has much to do with their attitudes towards it."
Dr David M. Jacobs, Professor of History, Temple University - (UFO Congress paper, 1980).
E-Book
• "Even the Soviets, who previously refused even to discuss the subject now admit to having a study group with good qualifications. The USSR Academy of Sciences still holds to the orthodox scientific view that UFOs are a nonproblem, however, using the same arguments we heard so long. These arguments are just as invalid in the USSR as in the USA."
George Kocher, unofficial paper 'UFOs: What to Do?' for circulation within RAND Corporation - November 27th, 1968.
• "Hysteria and contagion of belief can account for some of the reports of UFOs, but the weight of evidence suggests strongly that there must be some kind of physical phenomenon which underlies a portion of the reports."
Dr. Robert L. Hall, USAF Psychologist - statement submitted to the House Committee on Science and Astronautics Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects, July 29th, 1968.
Link
• "About 20 per cent of the sightings being reported to Ohio Northern university's 'Project A' cannot be explained away by ordinary procedure. There is a general consistency in these sightings - a saucer-shaped object, flat on the bottom with rounded edges and rising to a slight dome on top. The color is the same, bright blue or green. Takeoff is the same, slow at first and then, after reaching a certain point above the earth's surface, a terrific burst of speed."
Dr. Warren Hickman, University Dean and Co-Chairman of Project A, Ohio Northern University's UFO Investigation - THE NEWS (Lima, OHIO), 'Project A' Chief Can't Explain Flying Saucers', September 25th, 1952.
Link: 1 / 2
• "There are unidentified flying objects. That is, there are a hard core of cases - perhaps 20 to 30 percent in different studies - for which there is no explanation.. We can only imagine what purpose lies behind the activities of these quiet, harmlessly cruising objects that time and again approach the earth. The most likely explanation, it seems to me, is that they are simply watching what we are up to."
Dr. Margaret Mead, world-renowned Anthropologist, 'UFOs - Visitors from Outer Space?', Redbook, vol. 143, September, 1974.
Video: 24:42 / Video: 5:05
• "UFO denial appears to be as much political as sociological - more like Galileo’s ideas were political for the Catholic Church than like the once ridiculed theory of continental drift. In short, considerable work goes into ignoring UFOs, constituting them as objects only of ridicule and scorn. To that extent one may speak of a 'UFO taboo', a prohibition in the authoritative public sphere on taking UFOs seriously.”
Professor Alexander Wendt - 'Sovereignty and the UFO', academic peer reviewed and published paper co-authored with Raymond Duvall.
• "There appears, then, to be a broad consensus among the governments cited above: UFOs are objectively real – albeit currently not fully understood by science - worthy, at best, of focused study and, at the very least, of sustained monitoring in the interests of aviation safety and national security."
Robbie Graham - 'History of Government Management of UFO Perceptions through Film and Television', academic peer reviewed and published paper co-authored with Matthew Alford.
• "Over 50 percent of the UFO sightings have occurred over, coming from, or plunging into or coming out of water."
Zoologist Ivan T. Sanderson.
E-Book 1 / 2
• "It remains an established fact, supported by numerous observations, that UFOs have not only been seen visually but have also been picked up on the radar screen and have left traces on the photographic plate."
Dr. Carl Jung, 'A Fresh Look at Flying Saucers', Time, August 4th, 1967.
NewsClipping / Link: 1 / 2
• "I will stress once again that we do not know the source from which the UFOs or the alien beings come - whether or not, for example, they originate in the physical universe as modern astrophysics has described it.. but they manifest in the physical world and bring about definable consequences in that domain."
Dr. John E. Mack, Professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, and founding director of the Center for Psychology and Social Change, 1977 Pulitzer Prize winner - 'Abduction', New York: Scribners, 1994.
Video / E-Book
• "The phenomenon may be our own distant descendants coming back through time to study us in their own evolutionary past."
Dr. Michael P. Masters Ph.D, Professor of biological anthropology - 'Identified Flying Objects: A Multidisciplinary Scientific Approach to the UFO Phenomenon'.
Link / Video: 1:11:11
• "The mission of the Chinese UFO scholars is to help our citizens realize and implement their right to know and their right to discover. Any attempt to cover up is unacceptable. Statistics of the China UFO group shows that people involved in the subject of UFOs is of an overwhelming scale. According to our statistics in China, out of 1.3 billion people we have close to tens of millions of people who are UFO enthusiasts. And of those who are interested in the UFO subject who believe that UFO exists, account for half of the Chinese population.”
Dr. Sun Shili, Ph.D., Professor of International Trade at Beijing’s University of International Business and Economics.
Video
• "Based upon unreliable and unscientific surmises as data, the Air Force develops elaborate statistical findings which seem impressive to the uninitiated public unschooled in the fallacies of the statistical method. One must conclude that the highly publicized Air Force pronouncements based upon unsound statistics serve merely to misrepresent the true character of the UFO phenomena."
Yale Scientific Magazine (Yale University) Volume XXXVII, Number 7, April, 1963.
• "The government has manipulated the results scientific studies, such as the one done by Battelle, to show that they found noting when in fact they did. In other cases it has set up panels that purported to scientifically examine the subject, but instead used them to debunk the phenomena, such as those of Robertson and Condon."
Battelle Researcher Dr. Irena Scott Ph.D.
Video
