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Chris Rutkowski
The level and quality of UFO report investigation varies because there are no explicit and rigourous standards for UFO investigation. Investigators who are ―believers might be inclined to consider most UFO sightings as mysterious, whereas those with more of a skeptical predisposition might tend to subconsciously (or consciously) reduce the Unknowns in their files.
Originally posted by Unity_99
What a pile of crock. UFOLOGY is ongoing and never ending and we're all cosmic. I saw two crafts yesterday too, in the daytime, one out of the corner of my eye but it was etched cleary, silver and saucer shaped. Then on the way home dropping my older off, the sun had just set the sky was still light and I was thinking about how I got rescued from the psi like programs of early childhood by the ETs, (who had already given me their protocol and the kind of work they're doing upgrading, though that was stolen by the ptb here, like UN workers) ...
...ufology, the meat and bones of it, are experiencers!
Originally posted by Kandinsky
All in all, it doesn’t look good for the future of ufology! The good guys we have today, like Chris Rutkowski, aren’t being replaced by a younger generation. Databases will become meaningless. Ufology has every chance of becoming an historical point of interest for people studying 20th Century Americana or social phenomena.
Originally posted by Kandinsky
reply to post by Unity_99
Unity, your posts are always so full of life that I never begin to read them..perhaps you could try channeling your sense of self-esteem and stop telling the most outlandish stories?
Originally posted by Kandinsky
The databases of the past were mostly sourced from direct contact (at some point) with witnesses. That doesn’t mean they were infallible – they weren’t, but some of the reports were very good and had been fully investigated face-to-face. Future databases will be sourced from anonymous internet reporters with little or no direct contact. This will essentially render the reports meaningless and condemn any studies based upon them to GIGO.
There has always been a problem with the quality of the data due to lack of standardization in gathering and classification. Way too much subjectivity thrown into the mix. But that problem will always be there in any area of study where the investigators are all unpaid, biased "enthusiasts," and your core source of data is case studies and you're trying to apply a larger statistical overlay on it all.
I also think that classic UFO research has always been biased toward a more nuts-and-bolts, alien spacecraft explanation, and has never been able to incorporate the recognized social, psychological, and even parapsychological aspects that keep popping up in the "high strangeness" cases.
Your sentiments about the non-sensationalized reports from Canada definitely strike a note with me. I look for the reports that have an internal consistency and a ring of truth. How infallible is that? Maybe not very, but a squeak better than relying on any self-professed "professional" ufologist.
I believe there are windows of opportunity that open briefly to allow us to gain knowedge...... The UFO phenomena is actually about to peak in my estimation, culminating in some form of contact.....