Former NASA Engineer Argues We Should Take UFOs Seriously

nivek

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Former NASA Engineer Argues We Should Take UFOs Seriously

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As members of both the ufology community and mainstream media (whatever that means) still work to make sense of the disclosures of the Pentagon’s UFO research program and alleged declassified footage of truly anomalous flying objects stalking military vessels, more and more voices are being raised in support of taking the study of UFO phenomena seriously.

The latest voice to join that chorus is Dr. Kevin Knuth, a former NASA research scientist who is currently a professor of physics at the University of Albany and the director of both the Knuth Information Physics Laboratory and the Knuth Cyberphysics Laboratory. Writing on The Conversation, Knuth argues that “blanket skepticism about extraterrestrial craft is not sustainable” in light of recent developments. Is this yet another sign of the beginning of a major step towards disclosure and discovery?

I sure hope so. In his wide-ranging article, Knuth touches upon such topics as the Fermi paradox, the recently disclosed Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program, and international agencies devoted to studying UFOs. Knuth admits that he’s always been interested in UFOs and the possibility of interstellar travel, and that after years of skepticism, he now believes “we need to face the possibility that some of the strange flying objects that outperform the best aircraft in our inventory and defy explanation may indeed be visitors from afar.”

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Knuth points out that despite the growing evidence that militaries and government agencies worldwide have taken the UFO phenomenon seriously for some time, the study of anomalous aerial phenomena remains taboo among professional scientists:
Essentially, we are told that the topic is nonsense. UFOs are off-limits to serious scientific study and rational discussion, which unfortunately leaves the topic in the domain of fringe and pseudoscientists, many of whom litter the field with conspiracy theories and wild speculation.
It’s not only the scientific community that’s to blame for this perception, Knuth adds, noting that popular culture and mass media have played right into this narrative as well:
The media amplifies the skepticism by publishing information about UFOs when it is exciting, but always with a mocking or whimsical tone and reassuring the public that it can’t possibly be true. But there are credible witnesses and encounters.
Despite this widespread skepticism, Knuth is confident that “many of these encounters – still a very small percentage of the total – defy conventional explanation.” Knuth also points the fact that UFO sightings are fairly common among astronomers, more than half of whom feel that the UFO phenomenon deserves serious scientific study.

What will it take to remove the stigma surrounding the study of UFOs? A mothership landing on the 50-yard line during the Super Bowl halftime show and unleashing a cybernetic hive mind? A little green woman using the Voyager 2 probe to take an intergalactic selfie? Or could the support of enough credible scientists turn the tide in favor of ufology as a legitimate science? On that note, Knuth closes with the observation that “while there is no single case for which there exists evidence that would stand up to scientific rigour, there are cases with simultaneous observations by multiple reliable witnesses, along with radar returns and photographic evidence revealing patterns of activity that are compelling.”

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And then there’s stuff like this.

Science is based on replicability, testable explanations, and empirical evidence; since UFOs don’t typically fit this model, they’re excluded from most scientific study. As history has shown, however, scientific paradigms can change as we discover or invent new methods of studying the phenomena around us.

What will be the tipping point that brings ufology into the realm of the hard sciences?

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michael59

Celestial
I passed "shake up" over a decade ago. Now I'm just wondering how they plan to approach us. Will it be full on "War of the Worlds" or will it be a gradual take over?
 

Standingstones

Celestial
I would suggest that there are alien races based here on a Earth already. Perhaps this is why we get stories of aliens warning the human race about nuclear arms and pollution. They don’t want humans crapping all over a planet they already live on or in.

I have read stories about extraterrestrials based in the Himalayas. There is a zone between China and India where humans are not welcome. Both sides have armies based in this God forsaken zone. Each side is afraid of the other but both China and India know not to mess with these alien races based in mountain caves.
 

CasualBystander

Celestial
Well...

The Engineer in the OP post shouldn't be arguing.

He should be presenting evidence of why we should take UFOs seriously.

Arguing doesn't solve anything.
 

Gambeir

Celestial
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I passed "shake up" over a decade ago. Now I'm just wondering how they plan to approach us. Will it be full on "War of the Worlds" or will it be a gradual take over?

Well I used to think they had already taken over and were running the governments, and then I realized that all the politicians are actually special needs people, and so now I think that the reason they are all special needs is because the aliens haven't got it down yet, and which is why have to keep abducting people evidently, and so we have mental defectives for leaders. War is therefore inevitable due to incompetence.
 

spacecase0

earth human
Well...

The Engineer in the OP post shouldn't be arguing.

He should be presenting evidence of why we should take UFOs seriously.

Arguing doesn't solve anything.
I totally agree
now let us think about reality for a moment
I have a device that produces an alternating time field about every 1.3 seconds.
it messes with gravity as well
when I asked the professors I had back then, I was told that I build the wrong device...
not a hint at measurement error...
but that this thing I built should have never been part of this world. (that was my first clue as to models VS actual reality)
yet this device is in the other room right now...

I made it a point to meet as many people as I could in life (well before the internet)
and a pattern appeared
people that seeked to be correct and the ones that seeked to find the truth

so, as someone that has seen time an gravity messed with (at least with my hardware),
and given what we see in the sky,
this entire debate was clearly seen long ago

so, I ask all reading this thread take a look at how and why they see reality they find themselves in it

when I say that I have watched the academic world do something,
it is out of experience
when people rented out a room, it was often one I was in control of
most groups had meetings talking of how they could do nothing to change the world
but a few did something else
the most striking one was the national academy of science,
they spend something like 12 million dollars in as many minuets while I watched
they did this not to find any sort of truth,
but lamented that it took this much money to alter public opinion.
 

Gambeir

Celestial
Well the issue for me is the stooge who's advancing the idea we should take UFO's seriously because what is his context?
What does he mean by that? See the implied meaning is that they are otherworldly.

For myself discussions about UFO's come with specific contexts.

There are the man made UFO's: The Nazi UFO's & Those of the Deep State Kleptocorporate Fascist's.
There are the fictional UFO's: The UFO's of Hollywood and those of liars and attention whores.
There are possible Alien UFO's: UFO's which might not even be recognized as UFO's so much as portholes and lights.
There are possible Living Creature UFO's:The Sky Creatures
There are the UFO's of Mind Control: Pentagon Aliens, refer he back to the Deep State at the beginning.
 
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