#Research findings torrent#

They could have shown you all sorts of stuff-including lots of smallpox-infested brethren-as proof that they were being 'visited,'' he said. 'Contrast this paucity of physical evidence with what the American Indians could have shown you fifty years after Christopher Columbus first violated their sea-space.

#Research findings torrent#

'First, despite a torrent of sightings for more than a half-century, I can't think of a single, major science museum that has alien artifacts on display,' Shostak said.

or for that matter, even here for brief visits. 'I'm just not convinced that alien craft are here to stay. 'I've no doubt that UFOs are here to stay,' said Seth Shostak, Senior Astronomer at the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California. stop accepting what we wish to believe even when the evidence is poor, and begin thinking ahead.' Randle's advice is to the point: 'We need to begin to apply rigorous standards of research. I mean, we know this, and yet there are those who believe that Mantell was killed by aliens.' There are those that contend he was killed by a blue beam from a UFO, Randle said 'even though we have known for years that the UFO was a balloon and he violated regulations by climbing above 14,000 feet without oxygen equipment. Then there's the celebrated Thomas Mantell saga, a pilot that lost his life chasing a UFO in 1948. Randle points to yesteryear stories, one stretching back in time to a supposed 1897 airship crash in Aurora, Texas, long proven to be a hoax by two con men-yet continues to surface in UFO circles. There's no real new research, he said, and that's 'because we have to revisit the trash of the past.' 'I would have to say that we're stuck in neutral,' said Kevin Randle, a leading expert and writer on UFOs and is known as a dogged researcher of the phenomena. But it's like Charlie Brown and the football: No matter how many times Lucy pulls the football away-or the promised 'disclosure' fails to happen-they're dead-certain that the next time will be their moment of glory.' 'UFO believers are convinced that the existence of UFOs will be revealed 'any day now'. That allows con-men to thrive peddling their yarns,' Sheaffer said. 'It's because nobody, anywhere, has any actual facts concerning alleged UFOs, just claims. Sheaffer told, in regard to the cottage industry of UFO promoters, there's a reason there are still so many snake-oil sellers. sacred cows, after all, make the best hamburger.'

'These understandings may point the way towards an acceptance of the probability of interstellar travel and communication by spacefaring races.'Īs UFO debunker Robert Sheaffer's web site proclaims, he's 'skeptical to the max.' He is a fellow of the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal and a well-known writer on the UFO scene.īeing an equal-opportunity debunker, Sheaffer notes that he refutes whatever nonsense, in his judgment, 'stands in the greatest need of refuting, no matter from what source it may come, no matter how privileged, esteemed, or sacrosanct. 'Physics is leading to new and potentially paradigm shifting understandings about the nature of our universe and its physical properties,' Roe said. 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. '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.

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. NARCAP has made the case that some of these phenomena have unusual electromagnetic properties. His forecast is that scientific rigor will prevail, demonstrating that there are 'stable, mobile, unusual, poorly documented phenomena with quite unusual properties manifesting within our atmosphere,' he told. Roe said that a decade from now, researchers should have even better instrumentation at their disposal and better data on UAP of several varieties. NARCAP was established in 2000 and is dedicated to the advancement of aviation safety issues as they apply to, what they term Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP). More work to be done here but some good results already.'

'The capture of optical spectra from mobile, unpredictable luminosities is one of those innovations. There have been advances in the field of UFO research, said Ted Roe, Executive Director of the National Aviation Reporting Center on Anomalous Phenomena (NARCAP), based in Vallejo, California.