| | Abstract: A reasonable case can be made that those of us who have dedicated
a serious amount of research time to the study of ufology have learned the
following:
1. That the phenomenon is a true, ongoing mystery, and is deserving of serious study;
2. How it has happened that even good (open-minded) scientists have been thrown off
the subject;
3. That the "Extraterrestrial Hypothesis" (ETH) may be able to serve as a working
model for what is going on but not in any simple-minded form;
4. That the field is almost impossible to study in any "conservative" (physical
sciencesllab-top) type of way, barring rare cases of certain "close encounters."
There are many other historical, sociological, epistemological things that we
have learned. This review will focus its remarks around the four categories
mentioned above. |
