GhostofBiedny
Celestial
frankly i never really got the gist of mac, at first he seemed to be in the right path, talking about the high strangeness and synchromysticism related to UFOs and the paranormal, then out of nowhere he came to the conclusion that UFOs were a paralel civilization living alongside us, wich not only completely contradicts his earlier research but is also a explanation sillier than ETH, he also stole john keel's ultraterrestrial label for his theory, wich is also weird because mac's ultraterrestrial theory, has 0% to do with the original ultraterrestrial theory
I think this is partly because there is no real research anymore as said earlier. To a large degree that is because it is hard to get any funding (due to the ridicule factor) and the only way to make money in this field is to put out complete garbage and form a cult around yourself.
Even with those that stay honest and serious things don't advance, what happens instead is that people recycle theories from the past as if they are new ideas.
Until anyone can do real research the theories can't really evolve - there is no proof as such, no testing, all that happens is a particular theory comes into vogue, people get their fill of it and then they move onto something else because there is no progress.
Not sure what can be done.
It's one of the reasons I keep checking out every couple of years - it just gets so boring and repetitive. Often it doesn't just feel like we're making no progress, it feels like we are just going backwards.
My hope used to be that some rich billionaire would fund real research into it and make their findings public but I suppose that was as unrealistic as Gene expecting a Bill Gates type to receive his newsletter and send him a million dollars.
We have Bigelow doing his research but like most billionaires he has his own agenda - nobody is quite sure what it is but he certainly isn't revealing much of his research publicly. If he does find anything useful he will likely keep it under wraps and sell it to the military for a tidy sum.
I suppose that is why he is a billionaire and we aren't because if I were in his position I would make it public.