Take a deep dive into UFO history in 'After the Flying Saucers Came' by Greg Eghigian (exclusive)

[Admin]

An interview with "After the Flying Saucers Came" author and Penn State history professor Greg Eghigian about the history of the UFO phenomenon and those who study it.

Take a deep dive into UFO history in 'After the Flying Saucers Came' by Greg Eghigian (exclusive) : Read more

 

[Dave]

Congratulations is in order. This is possibly the closest Space.com has come to representing a viewpoint not part of their status quo. The needle of the pendulum is inching to the belief that 'we are not alone.' But as so eloquently said academia is slow (in many ways) and very, very skeptical.

Credible witnesses that are believable. Programs in the military that truly exist. Spacecraft that defy the laws of physics. Over 300 million potentially habitable worlds. Life completely dominating a world with liquid water. Having to deal with a science better than our own.

Intelligent lifeforms observing are world must truly laugh at our ethnocentric belief that humanity is the center of the universe. A more thorough investigation as to why the military continue to cover up, lie and misdirect the public about their true knowledge of UAP's continues. Lots of money is being spent on something they say, doesn't exist. Both members of the senate and bipartisan members of congress are investigating and continue the fight for the truth.

Here is a prediction. A thoughtful article with the viewpoint that 'we are not alone' will one day grace astronomy news articles. We will all look forward to this moment.

 

[COLGeek]

Hardly an exhaustive, scientific tome, I plan to read this. Just for grins.

Based on the article (summary) it sounds like a collection of old unproven articles and assumptions.

The 2017 thing is very much oversold.

But, we'll see.

UPDATE: Book ordered, arrives Saturday.

 

[Questioner]

Certainty exposes our points of psychological dependency.

If a POV is 'good enough' for most everyone else or at least the establishment edifice is that 'good enough' for one's self?

Collective wisdom often isn't,
but harmonizing with it does provide a social convenience.

Caution:
Sometimes a 'rabbit hole' leads to something very not-rabbit.

 

[Dave]

If you are looking for more information regarding the events that occurred in 2017 you can check on You Tube. The video by National Geographic: Government Breaks Silence - is very informative.

 

[COLGeek]

I actually received and have scanned the book. As I surmised earlier, it is the retelling of old stories.

Nothing here. Junk, definitely not science.

The book will get donated to the Little Library in a park near my house.

 

[Classical Motion]

Copy rearrange paste.

 

[Helio]

FWIW, there is the "UFOlogists Invasion" event at the UFO Museum in Roswell from the 5th to the 7th.

Last time I was there, they told me that they no longer had suppliers of tin hats, should anyone want some side money.

It is a nice museum, nevertheless, and the people that run it are nice folks.

Science, however, is objective-based and I have yet to be convinced by scant evidence that they are out their doing weird stuff. If aliens are going to travel hundreds of trillions of miles to get here, they won't be so taciturn and never in line at Whataburger -- the main reason they came, of course.

 

[billslugg]

My fear is aliens will take the best seats at the finer restaurants, ordering the flaming dishes, drawing attention to themselves.

 

[Dave]

As for area 51, it has been reported that the CIA stronghold sole purpose was to develop top secret planes to spy on Russia. This was always the purpose of this military base. There were false reports that this was used as a base to study alien spacecraft. it is essential that we continue to declassify files and strive for the truth. In time we will uncover the lies , cover up and misdirection by the DOD, and the Pentagon.

Bipartisan members of congress and the senate continue the fight of uncovering the truth. We will learn the progress of reverse engineering of alien spacecraft. We will learn why for years credible witnesses have been silenced. Why evidence has been hidden and why the public has been misinformed.